IS "MODERN" HOSPITAL CARE A THREAT TO YOUR LIFE ?
100,000 KILLED FROM BAD PROCEEDURES AND CARE !!
The following quotes are from the New York Times 06/23/01
regarding the debate about patients bill of
rights, but ignoring the experts DIRE WARNINGS quoted below!!
"The biggest threat to life and limb" comes from "what happens to
you once you reach the doctor's office or hospital"
said Michael L. Millenson, health expert with
the human resources consulting firm William M. Mercer.
"Dr. Leape and other experts estimate that perhaps 20 to 30 percent of
medical procedures are wrongly prescribed. And a 1999 report from
the institute showed that hospitals lack basic
systems to catch errors before they
KILL OR MAIM PATIENTS, leading
to as many as
100,000 deaths EACH YEAR from PREVENTABLE ERRORS."
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The following is quoted from the
1999 book The PEOPLE'S PHARMACY GUIDE to HOME and HERBAL REMEDIES
page 11. We highly recommend this book.
Several decades ago the pharmaceutical industry through massive advertising
convinced us that "Better living through chemistry" and their expensive
prescription drugs was the way of "modern medicine". Recently many
consumers have become convinced that the FDA* was not properly
protecting the public. In 1998 in The Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) reaffirmed those fears with "A study which
study concluded that
more than 100,000 patients die in the United
States hospitals each year
from adverse drug reactions. If you added
in medication misadventures that occur at home (dosing mistakes,
interaction complications, and side effects), prescription medicines
would be the third (3) leading cause of death in the United States,
just behind heart disease and cancer".
HAS THE PROCESSED FOOD AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY BLOCKED
PROPER TRAINING OF OUR DOCTORS?
"A review of medical school curricula in 1992 shows little
increased attention to clinical nutrition seven years later (Burros,
1992). ... Medical doctors, despite their extensive education in
anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and conventional medical
techniques, are not qualified to comment on nutrition and health,
unless they have pursued studies outside their medical education.
If you don't believe this, ask your doctor
about the average magnesium status of Americans, and ask him or her
to name five symptoms or diseases that might be associated with
magnesium deficiency."
Quoted from The Healing Power of Minerals,
Special Nutrients, and Trace Elements by Paul Bergner page 83. .........
This incredible situation should be a shock
and warning
to all of us!!
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