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To: JmyBryan
The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year.

This sounds like bunk. Most of the people "killed" by "conventional medicine" would have been dead long before without it. Take me, for example. I would have been dead at age 21 without conventional medicine, from complications of gall bladder disease which had caused stones to completely block any bile from leaving my liver, causing my liver to be under extreme pressure (danger of rupturing) and bile to be backing up into my bloodstream. I could not eat or drink at all. So "conventional medicine" used anesthesia, antibiotics, and a boatload of other stuff to put me back in working order. But according to this article's methodology, if I die today from a reaction to a drug, "conventional medicine" killed me. And a huge percentage of medical error and medication interaction deaths are in the elderly, few of whom would still be alive to be victims of these problems, were it not for prior help from "conventional medicine" at some point(s) in their lives. Utter nonsense.

4 posted on 02/26/2004 1:15:41 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Oh my gosh... I think I've just met a kindred spirit (check my tagline).
8 posted on 02/26/2004 1:43:42 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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