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Hospital warning: medical errors kill 195,000 Americans each year, says new study

Wednesday, July 28, 2004
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: hospitals, medical errors, bad medicine


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A new study has revealed startling statistics about the number of people killed each year in U.S. hospitals. That number is now estimated to be 195,000 people, or almost twice as many as were estimated in a 1998 report on the same subject. To put this in perspective, this is equivalent to almost fifty 9/11 attacks each year in terms of the number of fatalities caused. This is a health care crisis -- people are being killed by preventable hospital errors and neglect. Unfortunately, it's also the norm in our modern medical system.

This is yet more evidence showing how dangerous it is to be in a hospital. I've often stated that a hospital is the most dangerous place to be, and 195,000 people each year would no doubt agree with that statement. So what's causing all of these deaths in the first place? They are typically being caused by inadequate care by health care personnel, such as ignoring bedsores, or by complications from surgical procedures such as post-operative sepsis or infections that result in death.

Errors are also very common in the administering of prescription drugs to patients. Previous studies have shown alarmingly high error rates, where health care personnel give the wrong prescriptions to the wrong patients in the wrong way, and have even been caught attempting to administer fatal doses of prescription drugs simply because they were ordered to do so by a physician.

Make no mistake -- the modern medical system we have in the United States is extremely risky for patients. Prescription drugs alone kill 100,000 people a year, and over-the-counter medications kill another 40,000. Now with this study we know that hospital errors kill another 195,000 people each year. In all, this makes almost 350,000 people each year who are killed by modern medicine. And that's all according to statistics compiled by the medical establishment! I'm sure that critics of modern medicine (such as myself) could make a strong case for a much higher number of deaths being caused by our current system.

And yet once again, we don't see many headlines about this crisis. No one is calling for an investigation of the pharmaceutical companies for killing 100,000 people each year. The FDA stands by as if on the sidelines, watching all of this without much alarm. Yes, the agency has mandated the bar coding of prescription drugs in hospitals to help reduce prescription drug errors, but when those prescription drugs cause fatalities even when prescribed and administered correctly, bar coding doesn't solve the source of the problem in the first place. The real problem with our modern medical system is that it relies on drugs and surgery to treat practically everything, and these limited strategies are inherently dangerous and will inevitably cause fatalities, as is now being shown in numerous studies just like this one.

If we had a national health care system that was based on prevention, nutrition, physical exercise, and consultation with patients rather than surgical procedures and prescription drugs, we would have far fewer deaths, and in fact, great improvements in the longevity and happiness of patients. Costs would plummet, and hospitals could be transformed into places of healing rather than death traps. In time, I hope that we can see major reforms in organized medicine, but for the present, a U.S. hospital is one of the last places you want to find yourself.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

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