Every year in the U.S. more than 100,000 people die as a direct result of mistakes made by doctors.
In addition to that, thousands more are injured/maimed.
Surgical patients get the wrong organs removed, the wrong lims amputated. There are also those who end up going in for something like a tonsilectomy and get a leg amputated because someone mixed the charts up.
jm
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> From: Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2002/03/06 Wed AM 11:16:17 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: 100 Years
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> I rather doubt that RNader said "killed by doctors". It would be a valid
> and inflammatory statistic to point out that huge numbers of people die when
> "in the care of doctors", but I don't know if that's Nader's style or not.
>
> More people should emulate Woody Allen's immortality ploy: don't die!
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guy HPTraderOnline [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:41 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: OT: 100 Years
> >
> >
> > I just went to a talk on Homeopathic medicine last night.
> > The speaker said
> > that at the turn of the last century, you could get a
> > homeopathic health kit
> > in the Sears catalog. The AMA convinced politicians that
> > they were the
> > going concern and every other attempt at healing amounted to
> > quackery. I
> > heard a while ago, Ralph Nader said that more people are
> > killed each year by
> > doctors than the total number of American soldiers who died
> > in the Vietnam
> > Conflict.
> >
> > Guy
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andreas Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > Ninety percent of all U.S. Physicians had no college education.
> > Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were
> > > condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."
> > >
> >
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