“As few as 5% and no more than 20% of iatrogenic acts are ever reported.(16,24,25,33,34) This implies that if medical errors were completely and accurately reported, we would have an annual iatrogenic death toll much higher than 783,936. In 1994, Leape said his figure of 180,000 medical mistakes resulting in death annually was equivalent to three jumbo-jet crashes every two days.(16) Our considerably higher figure is equivalent to six jumbo jets are falling out of the sky each day. What we must deduce from this report is that medicine is in need of complete and total reform—from the curriculum in medical schools to protecting patients from excessive medical intervention. It is obvious that we cannot change anything if we are not honest about what needs to be changed. This report simply shows the degree to which change is required…..”
I remember an old book by a Dr. Mendelson titled *Confessions of a Medical Heretic* in which he cites slumping death rates during 1970s doctors’ strikes in Sweden and Israel. When the doctors returned to work, the death rates climbed back up to their “normal” levels.
I am very leery of visiting doctors. Just as cops create crime, so doctors create illness. It’s how elites Preserve the Disorder. Yet millions of Americans continue to confuse police work with civil orderliness and medical intervention with health care.
And degree granting with educating…
Everything is a commodity you consume….which requires a vendor…which ends up becoming the corporate state.