death, anyone?

These are deaths in a single year in the USA.

Heart disease: . . . . 699,697
Cancer: . . . . . . . . . 553,251

Death by Doctor:

Bedsores: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,000
Medical errors: . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,000
Nosocomial Infections: . . . .. . 88,000
Unnecessary Procedures: . . . . . 37,136
Adverse Drug Reactions : . . . . .305,000
Malnutrition (due to cancer treatments): . . . . . . . . . . . 108,800
Surgery Mistakes (and complications due to surgery): .32,000


This means doctors and drugs killed 783,936 people in the
United States, and that makes them the number one killer in
this country.

Source: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/medicine/usamed.htm

It is interesting to note that of those who died from drugs,
16,500 of them were from NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-
inflammatory drugs), many of which are OTCs (over-the-counter
drugs, like Aleve, etc.). Eight people also died from charcoal
briquettes (BBQing in a closed space?).

But most interesting is that not one (not even one!) died from
taking vitamins, which seems to be one of the things some doctors
rant about us using (and the FDA wants to control). One should
note that I did validate these stats through NCHS (National Center
for Health Statistics), but they were for the year 2001 and several
shows/newsletters (Know the Cause and Dr. Mercola at a
minimum) are using them as though they are the most current.

There are also many websites giving stats as far back as 1999 as
if they are the latest. I have found newer (preliminary) stats for
2004, but they do not break down into the same categories.
Maybe they don't want you to know...


Heart disease: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654,092 (down by
45,605)
Cancer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550,270 (down by
2,981 -
not enough for all those 'breakthrough drugs' they claim)
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,147
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 123,884
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 108,694
Diabetes: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,815
Alzheimer's disease: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,829
Influenza/Pneumonia: . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,472
Septicemia: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,464
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 42,762

Source: Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2004, tables 7


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