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The supposedly superior private healthcare system in the U.S., the one that everyone says makes us the envy of the industrialized world, needs to focus on the third leading cause of death - the medical profession.

Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US

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.

Writing in the Journal of the American Medical
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
7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
80,000 -- infections in hospitals
106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs
These total to 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!

Trial Lawyers have been doing their best to correct the situation, but apparently the docs and their helpers still have the upper hand.

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