98,000
Annual deaths from medical errors in the U.S.
Source: Institute of Medicine.
I just sent a link to my kid brother - an MD who opposes firearms because of the “Bad Things They Do” (gag).
98,000 is a whitewash. It’s Way higher than that.
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm
This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year.
The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)