Are You at Risk for the 3rd Leading Cause of Death in the United States? There are no benefits from more than 40% of medical treatments and the third leading cause of death, close behind heart disease and cancer, is physician-caused diseases. Iatrogenic diseases – “physician-caused diseases” - cause between 230,00 and 284,000 deaths annually in the United States - Institutes of Medicine Iatrogenic diseases or illnesses arise for a number of reasons, such as: • Avoidable errors • Uncalculated outcomes of practitioner’s choices • Medical negligence • Intentional wrongdoing by physicians According to Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as other experts, more than 90% of medical errors are hidden not only from the public, but from hospital authorities as well. Findings indicate the effects of physician errors include: • 116 million additional doctor’s visits • 77 million extra prescriptions • 17 million emergency room visits • 8 million hospitalizations • 3 million long-term admissions • $77 billion in extra costs • 199,000 preventable deaths Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD, of the Medical Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, says 40% of current medical practices offer no benefits. He and his team identified 146 medical reversals, after they had evaluated 1,344 original articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine between 2001 and 2010. Medical reversals refer to medical practices that offer no benefits and have never worked. Dr. Prasad says: “They were instituted in error, never helped patients, and have eroded trust in medicine.” Experts recommend the following in the wake of these shocking revelations: • always be alert at the doctor’s • request and read copies of your medical records • get a second opinion, especially for serious diagnoses Robert Brook, professor of medicine at UCLA, says, “The bottom line is, we have a system that is terribly out of control.” Conventional medicine must be reinvented. In the meantime, individuals who care about their health should look elsewhere for answers. There are many safe, effective, and scientifically validated natural treatments that already exist for today’s most common health problems, including cancer.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:05:34 +0000
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