Medical system is leading cause of death and injury in US

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Medical system is leading cause of death and injury in US

Health Supreme

October 29, 2003

 

Shocking statistical evidence is cited by Gary Null PhD, Caroly Dean

MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD and Dorothy Smith PhD in

their recent paper Death by Medicine - October 2003, released by the

Nutrition Institute of America.

 

" A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review

journals, and government health statistics shows that American

medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people

having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed

medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995,

said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for

viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to

tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. The number of

unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5

million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization

annually is 8.9 million. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown

in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American

medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United

States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the

annual cancer death rate, 553,251.

 

Health Care expenditures in the US have reached 14% of the Gross

National Product and a staggering $1.6 trillion in 2003. No wonder,

one might be tempted to say. With such an appalling record of

efficacy and such an unbelievable death rate for the treatments

routinely administered, the current medical system can only be said

to be in great need of deep reform.

 

Certainly it would appear more urgent to investigate the rationale,

efficacy and relative cost-effectiveness of pharmaceutical medicine

than to legislate restrictive rules for supplements of vital

nutrients, as most governments and some international organisations

are doing in these times.

 

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Deadly Medical Mistakes Exposed

The Nutrition Institute of America

October 28, 2003

 

New York, New York - New information has been presented showing the

degree to which Americans have been subjected to injury and death by

medical errors. The results of seven years of research reviewing

thousands of studies conducted by the NIA now show that medical

errors are the number one cause of death and injury in the United

States.

 

According to the NIA's report, over 784,000 people die annually due

to medical mistakes. Comparatively, the 2001 annual death rate for

heart disease was 699,697 and the annual death rate for cancer was

553,251.

 

Over 2.2 million people are injured every year by prescription drugs

alone and over 20 million unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics

are prescribed annually for viral infections. The report also shows

that 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are

performed every year and 8.9 million people are needlessly

hospitalized annually. Based on the results of NIA's report, it is

evident that there is a pressing need for an overhaul of the entire

American medical system.

 

The findings, described as a " revelation " by Martin Feldman, MD, who

helped to uncover the evidence, are the product of the first

comprehensive studies on iatrogenic incidents. Never before has any

study uncovered such a massive amount of information with regard to

iatrogenesis. Historically, only small individual partial studies

have been performed in this area.

 

Carolyn Dean, MD, a physician and author who also helped to uncover

the findings said, " I was completely shocked, amazed, and dismayed

when I first added up all the statistics on medical death and saw how

much allopathic medicine has betrayed us. "

 

The Nutrition Institute of America is a not-for-profit, non-partisan

organization that has been enlightening the public on health issues

for nearly 30 years.

 

For more information, contact David Slater, President of NIA at (646)

505 - 4660 x 155.

Alternatively contact: Richard Polonetsky (646)-505-4660 x171

 

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Dr. Carolyn Dean and Trueman Tuck have recently published a book:

 

Death by Modern Medicine goes beyond the statistics of deaths due to

drugs to how the medical monopoly that created the system in the

first place is allowed to control health care. A tale of propaganda,

health care bureaucracy, the business of cancer, our own personal

addictions to sugar and drugs, and the denial we all harbor to help

us cope with the overwhelming burden, are woven into this 360-page

volume.

 

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