Re: Tragic - we could see 1000's of such stories daily about modern medicine

I am just curious...where do these numbers about perscription deaths and adverse reactions come from?

Ultimately, the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting Database, but my sourse was MSNBC.  It was also reported in USA Today and numerous other publications.

By the Journal of the American Medical Association's own estimates, doctors and drugs are the third leading cause of death in the United States.  Others, including myself, contend that they are actually the leading cause or second leading cause when unreported deaths and mis-reported deaths are taken into account (for example, when someone dies from radiation or other treatments and drugs the cause is often listed as cancer or other original diagnosed disease) and when death occurs due to a condition caused by side effects from mainstream drugs.

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