Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists

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According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine, by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine mistakes. That's the equivalent of six jumbo jet crashes a day for an entire year. But where is the media attention for this tragedy? Where is the government support for stopping these medical mistakes before they happen?

After 9/11, the White House gave rise to the Department of Homeland Security, designed to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Since its inception, billions of dollars have been poured into it. The 2006 budget allots $34.2 billion to the DHS, a number that has come down slightly from the $37.7 billion budget of 2003.

According to the study led by Null, which involved a painstaking review of thousands of medical records, the United States spends $282 billion annually on deaths due to medical mistakes, or iatrogenic deaths. And that's a conservative estimate; only a fraction of medical errors are reported, according to the study. Actual medical mistakes are likely to be 20 times higher than the reported number because doctors fear retaliation for those mistakes. The American public heads to the doctor's office or the hospital time and again, oblivious of the alarming danger they're heading into. The public knows that medical errors occur, but they assume that errors are unusual, isolated events. Unfortunately, by accepting conventional medicine, patients voluntarily continue to walk into the leading cause of death in America.


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Those 783,936 deaths aren't separate incidents; it's one person dying 783,936 times.

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...I thought it was talking about 783,936 cells dying on one person.

They were "terrist cells," perhaps?

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It's not "terrist cells" at all; it's "terrism sells." It's big business and huge profits, after all.

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edited to add the popcorn.

ever since they took power in 1995 and people have died due to unsafe prescription drugs, unsafe cars, unsafe coal mines, and an illegal invasion of Iraq. That makes the GOP as much as terrorist group even more terrorizing than the Ku Klux Klan.

Dr. Gary Null does good work. I have listened to his radio programs for more than 25 years.

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It's founder, Stephen Barrett, also sits on the board of the American Council on Science and Health. Also sounds like a nice, helpful organization, no? Here are the contributors to that organization:

http://www.vegsource.com/articles/acsh_funding.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_on_Science_and_Health

Here's an article he wrote attacking as nuts anyone who thinks mercury fillings in your teeth could be a problem.
http://www.mercurochrome.org/archives/acsh.org/
In addition to supporting mercury fillings, he also is pro-flouride in drinking water and anti- nutritional supplements.
The guy is a shill for industry, in my opinion anyway.

"In addition to supporting mercury fillings, he also is pro-flouride in drinking water and anti- nutritional supplements."

Yes, those people down at quackwatch are trying to sap our precious bodily fluids.

There's a legitimate debate about prescription drugs but this won't advance it.

A prescription drug keeps me very much alive, ya know. I've taken insulin since age 7. Try to stop me now (I'm in my FORTIES).

to kill you than any terrorist. Lets ban all cars and traffic!! :sarcasm:
Nothing in life is 100% safe. Sheesh.
I agree though that doctor mistakes with meds happen though. That's why its really important to pay attention with prescription meds and take them as prescribed. Thats where most of the big problems come, when people DON'T pay attention. Education is the key. Listen to your doctor pay attention to his instructions and if you have any qualms..ASK QUESTIONS. That's the best way to stay safe with drugs.

More power to you.

If it's to say that Terrorism isn't a problem, well isn't this exactly the same as those Right Wing fucks who say that more people die on the Los Angeles Freeway than in Iraq?

Bryant
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Marijuana can help many peoples problems for which they take these synthetic drugs, and also pacifies recreational users. B*sh and all his administration need to set back and smoke a big blunt and just relax a bit then he might not be so antsy to invade countries for no reason.