Hmmm, so Modern Medicine ISN'T the 3rd leading cause of DEATH?

...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 .

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 ...... VERY IMPORTANT!

And congratulations to ALL of us for figuring that out and coming together to support each other as we learn and heal!

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