Also, Steel’s report In 1981 that showed a 36 percent of hospitalized patients experienced iatrogenesis with a 25 percent fatality rate; and adverse drug reactions were involved in 50 percent of the injuries. Bedell reported that 64 percent of acute heart attacks in one hospital were preventable and mostly due to adverse drug reactions. Leape also cited several autopsy studies with rates as high as 35 to 40 percent of missed diagnoses causing death.
One year later, in 1995, a report in JAMA said that:
"Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined.”23 NOTE: This is also, many more than the real CV deaths, not the fake rates generated with other co-morbidities. There is a difference between dying with CV and actually dying because of CV. And, how many of those were because of ventilators, which we now know was the wrong treatment.
In a 1996, Cynthia Crossen, writer for the Wall Street Journal published “Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America,” a book about the widespread practice of lying with statistics. Her data on financial involvement showed that in1981, the drug industry gave $292 million to colleges and universities for research. Then, in 1991, it gave $2.1 billion.
At his press conference in 1997, Leape updated his 1994 statistics and released a nationwide poll on patient iatrogenesis conducted by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which is sponsored by the American Medical Association. The survey found that more than 100 million Americans have been impacted directly and indirectly by a medical mistake. Also, that medical errors in inpatient hospital settings could be as high as 3 million and could cost as much as $200 billion. It was also found that only one quarter of the adverse incidents are ever reported to protect staff, reputations, or fear of reprisals, including law suits. Apparently, only one in 20 are reported to either hospital administrators or the FDA
Two decades on and rarely if ever does the media report on iatrogenesis. Nor, do any politicians even mention the word. Instead the media pushes, 24/7, their latest drug or vaccine to a drug sick population. Government regulators restrict or outlaw many natural health options and practices and censor important information for consumers. Natural health practitioners, including some doctors who deviate from the status quo or protocols of big pharma, are constantly threatened, bullied, or professionally destroyed. Those who promote natural health are often labelled conspiracy theorists or worse. No one in government and none of our so called ‘medical experts’ bother to address the cause(s) of why 47% of our children are suffering from chronic diseases.
Adding insult to injury, government leaders continue to divert billions of our tax dollars into a criminal racket that is responsible for millions of injuries and deaths each year. In collusion, is the media, who continues to claim that they will soon have the magic bullet to protect lives! Just keep handing over billions of dollars more and remove all liability! Is knowledge about the human body and its amazing immune system really that lacking among our leaders and medical regulators? Or, are they that corrupt? Instead of saving lives they are, in fact, destroying lives.
PHARMA’S INFLUENCE ON MEDICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Another contributing factor to the medicalization of life and iatrogenesis is pharma’s influence on medical school curriculum and education. Because of this, physicians are deliberately trained to focus on diagnosing and treating disease with medication and/or surgery, rather than on promoting good health naturally and nutrition. A 2003 Study found that nearly half of medical school faculty, who serve on Institutional Review Boards (IRB) to advise on clinical trial research, also serve as consultants to the pharmaceutical industry.
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