Hmmm, so Modern Medicine ISN'T the 3rd leading cause of DEATH? Hmmm, so Modern Medicine ISN'T the 3rd leading cause of DEATH?
Hmmm, so Modern Medicine ISN'T the 3... 
unyquity
14 y
1,954
...it's the FIRST leading cause of death!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/07/healthcare-deat...
One of the most prominent articles on this site is Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death . Well that article was written in 2000 and now it appears that, based on a variety of references noted in the below article, some from prior to 2000 some after, the conventional medical system in fact the LEADING cause of death in this country. Not heart disease, not cancer--doctors. In all fairness, doctors themselves are not to blame for all of this. The entire modern health care system, however, is responsible for allowing, even promoting, so many unnecessary procedures, drugs and mishaps. This illustrates precisely why the system is so desperately in need of change, and why facilitating this change is, and will continue to be, such a substantial portion of my vision . By Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. 1 Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. 2, 2a The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. 3 The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. 4 The total number of iatrogenic [induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures] deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. 5 So....if doctors & medicine are THE most common cause of death, then just how important is it for us to learn to be our own doctors? Uhhhhhm ... And congratulations to ALL of us for figuring that out and coming together to support each other as we learn and heal! Unyquity 
... VERY IMPORTANT!
Re: Thanks~Re: Hmmm, so Modern Medic... Willowley
14 y
1,291
I don't have a tiny bit of a problem with believing that!
Yes, I think it is imperative we learn to be our own doctors.
YAY for all of us!! 
Willow
Even the doctors themselves are starting to recognize this as evidenced by this essay written by a Cardiologist in the New York Times titled, "Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason"... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/views/11essa.html?_r=2
The crux of what he has to say is this...
"Though accurate data is lacking, the overuse of services in health care probably cost hundreds of billions of dollars last year, out of the more than $2 trillion that Americans spent on health.
Are we getting our money’s worth? Not according to the usual measures of public health. The United States ranks 45th in life expectancy, behind Bosnia and Jordan; near last, compared with other developed countries, in infant mortality; and in last place, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a health-care research group, among major industrialized countries in health-care quality, access and efficiency. And in the United States, regions that spend the most on health care appear to have higher mortality rates than regions that spend the least, perhaps because of increased hospitalization rates that result in more life-threatening errors and infections. It has been estimated that if the entire country spent the same as the lowest spending regions, the Medicare program alone could save about $40 billion a year."
