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Health Care in America

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

A few random quotations (OK, not entirely random): 1. From this month's report Beyond Health Care: New Directions to a Healthier America, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Although medical care is essential for relieving sufferingand curing illness, only an estimated 10 to 15 percent ofpreventable mortality has been attributed to medical care.2. From an article entitled "Death by Medicine":As shown in the following table, the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths ? that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures ? in the US annually is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the US. By comparison, approximately 699,697 Americans died of heart in 2001, while 553,251 died of cancer...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).