“Also consider nurses and docs kill 250,000 people each year through something called iatrogenic deaths.”
There is a myth promulgated by both quacks and academics who should know better that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. You’ll see figures of 250,000 or even 400,000 deaths each year due to medical errors,
I dont believe the refutation.
Iatrogenic deaths cover a wide range of errors and mistakes. They are not all immediate and sudden, either.
For example, my mom uad a problem that her gp and specialist couldnt figure out and it was because of one medicine she was on, prescribed for a certain problem. Iatrogenic deaths can be deaths caused by correctly prescribed meds that still wind up killing someone.
I was the one that figured out it was that particular medicine and she stopped taking it, and then I had to fix the problem damage that medicine caused in her. None of her doctors fivured it out nor offered her any treatment to correct the damage done.
She wound up in the ER twice for dehydration and low potassium. All due to inept and incorrect care, plus not determining the prescribed drug that was causing her problem.
She would have been an iatrogenic death if I didn’t figure it oit.
People have died and keep dying just because doctors switch them onto generic versions of drugs that do not work like the label drug works.