The U.S. health care system may contribute to poor Writing in the Journal of the American Medical
health or death. According to Dr. Barbara Starfield of the
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 250,000 deaths
per year are caused by medical errors, making this the third-largest
cause of death in the U.S., following heart disease and cancer.
Association (JAMA), Dr. Starfield has documented the tragedy of
the traditional medical paradigm in the following statistics:
ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:
- 12,000 — unnecessary surgery 8
- 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals 9
- 20,000 — other errors in hospitals 10
- 80,000 — infections in hospitals 10
- 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs 2
- These total to 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!
What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in
a patient by a physician’s activity, manner, or therapy. Used
especially of a complication of treatment.via Naturodoc
I have worked in health care quite a bit and it makes total sense to me. For the most part, medicine is art masquerading as science.
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This is going to continue until the AMA starts to really police it’s own field or we get another group that will. To me the way it is now is like having the rats guard the cheese. When I was hurt this way, privately several “professionals” admitted I was right. Publicly everyone denied what happened. Want to know what is destroying trust in the medical field? Lack of accountability is eroding trust. Until this situation improves don’t expect trust and public faith to improve. It is time for the medical field to see the 300 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of the room.