The Third-Leading Cause Of Death In US Most Doctors Don’t Want You To Know About

“My little angel” is how Christopher Jerry describes his daughter Emily.

At just a year and a half, Emily was diagnosed with a massive abdominal tumor and endured numerous surgeries and rigorous chemotherapy before finally being declared cancer-free. But just to be sure, doctors encouraged Chris and his wife to continue with Emily’s last scheduled chemotherapy session, a three-day treatment that would begin on her second birthday.

On the morning of her final day of treatment, a pharmacy technician prepared the intravenous bag, filling it with more than 20 times the recommended dose of sodium chloride. Within hours Emily was on life support and declared brain dead.

Three days later she was gone.

Sadly, Emily’s case is not unique. According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

Other studies report much higher figures, claiming the number of deaths from medical error to be as high as 440,000. The reason for the discrepancy is that physicians, funeral directors, coroners and medical examiners rarely note on death certificates the human errors and system failures involved. Yet death certificates are what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rely on to post statistics for deaths nationwide.

“Well yeah, because if we get Coronvirus, we’re going to end up in the hospital and die from a medical error.“

So true. For one thing they are making Ford stop building cars and start making respirators. Mind you this is the company who made the Pinto. It took them 75 years to finally start making a halfway decent automobile. And now lives will be dependent on the respirator version of the Ford Pinto. And its being made by people who have never made anything but cars. I don’t thing these employees will be able to give 100 percent, especially when they will probably not get paid their usual salary.

Well yeah, because if we get Coronvirus, we're going to end up in the hospital and die from a medical error.

You could die twice.

Usually I'm against the 'it's only the flu brigade' when they are in the extreme, but i think it really will provide comfort to those who are actually panicked to say 'hey, you've been living all your life with more of a chance each year of being killed by the medical profession than Fauci's statisticians think your chance are of dying from Corona so keep it in perspective, panicker.'

But Corona remains unknown, though it is more and more known each day. I'm still for how Trump and the administration is handling it. You KNOW Trump wouldn't go to end of April if he wasn't shown basically the equivalent of a sound business plan w/numbers to back it up that said this is the right road ... and though I'm not a medical dude or statistician ... you don't need complex formulas given what we DO know or at least suspect is the behavior of this thing to say that end of April is safe - and if Trump can open it up before then, which I bet he does in parts of the country a week before, he will, and probably expects to.

I think he'll use Easter to say 'Peak in x days (probably 5 - 7), we know that now, get ready to get back to work in a couple weeks for many of you.'

Each person has his own major concern in a time like this.

But we’ve only been shut down for a short while, and I believe that this is helping to slow the infection.

If we let everything loose indiscriminately, many more would die unnecessarily - and that would be far more harmful to us, as individual humans and as an economy.

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