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[quote][size=2][quote] Brother! what about the Western world.[/quote][red] [b]"Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 225,000 Deaths Every Year" [/b] [/red]  
  
[blue]This information is a followup of the Institute of Medicine report which hit the papers in December of last year, but the data was hard to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed journal. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated medical periodical in the world.

The author is Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and she desribes how the US health care system may contribute to poor health.[/blue]

[green]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 [/green]

[b]These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!![/b]

[blue]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.[/blue]

For more on this please visit 
 http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm[/size=2][/quote]

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