Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Medical errors now the 3rd leading cause of death in the US
americanthinker.com ^ | 5/4/2015 | Rick Moran

Posted on 05/04/2016 8:03:26 AM PDT by rktman

A study published in the prominent medical journal BMJ concluded that errors by doctors and hospitals kills more than 250,000 people a year in the US. That's more than strokes, respiratory disease, and Alzheimers.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3rdleadingcause; death; doctors; errors; healthcare; hospitals; mds; medical; medicalerrors
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-42 next last
Ruh roh! Guess they forgot to include the 8 million deaths every year by "gun violence". Not ever MD finished at the top of the class.
1 posted on 05/04/2016 8:03:26 AM PDT by rktman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: rktman

Medical malpractice reform now!


2 posted on 05/04/2016 8:06:26 AM PDT by Wolfie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Time for “common sense” doctor control


3 posted on 05/04/2016 8:06:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

If my doctor cops an attitude and quits ... I’m gunnin’ for the americanthinker.com for publishing this boojit


4 posted on 05/04/2016 8:08:09 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Probably underestimates the real number by a factor of 10, given the nature of institutions to cover up events that expose them to liability.

All the healthiest people I know never see a doctor. Ever.

It’s because we don’t have a “health” care system. We have a “sick” care system. If you’re not profitably sick these institutions have no use for you, and all the incentives are to never find a cure for anything, just perpetually more expensive treatments to keep the gravy train rolling.


5 posted on 05/04/2016 8:09:22 AM PDT by thoughtomator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: knarf

I know two doctors who have already left the profession, rather than put up with the Federal meddling in their practices.


6 posted on 05/04/2016 8:09:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

I think it’s “doctor safety”.


7 posted on 05/04/2016 8:09:55 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Not surprised, we are overloading the system with all of the illegal immigrants being let in along with legal immigrants.


8 posted on 05/04/2016 8:10:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wolfie

Guns don’t kill people doctors do. :-)


9 posted on 05/04/2016 8:12:45 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2

Not to knock doctors but I’ve always thought of hospitals as a place you got to die.


10 posted on 05/04/2016 8:14:09 AM PDT by refermech
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

I have often wondered what do doctors who quit and have debt do for a living? Real estate, insurance?


11 posted on 05/04/2016 8:16:37 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Has happened in my family. Nurse gave my grandfather the wrong medication and it stopped his breathing. Luckily they were able to get him back.

Just recently my mom had surgery to repair a hiatal hernia. She had some nausea probably from the anaethesia, was vomiting when I got to her room. I contacted the nurse, they gave her meds that made her comfortable for the couple of hours that I was there with her but later that night she was vomitting more and the nurses let her vomit all night until I found out about it the next morning. Horrible care. I feel bad for people who have to be in the hospital and don’t have family to look out for them.


12 posted on 05/04/2016 8:17:42 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Resolute Conservative

They sell their practice


13 posted on 05/04/2016 8:18:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Wolfie

“Medical malpractice reform now!”

Exactly. Just imagine, the cost of services will nosedive....../s


14 posted on 05/04/2016 8:19:20 AM PDT by moehoward
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rktman

a lot of the folks dying from mistaken medical decisions wouldn’t have lived to get to the point where the bad decision was made just 10 or 15 years ago.
any bad decision that causes loss of life is horrible, but this article is just trying to be provocative without a discussion of underlying facts.


15 posted on 05/04/2016 8:20:05 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

It’s probably from all of those unnecessary surgeries they perform to line their pockets. It’s a good thing Hussein told us about this and took over. {gut wrenching sarcasm}


16 posted on 05/04/2016 8:20:52 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

They make enough off that to last them 20-30 years?


17 posted on 05/04/2016 8:24:10 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Palio di Siena

Bottom line is, that despite the best efforts of medicine practitioners around the world, the death rate globally remains at 100%.


18 posted on 05/04/2016 8:24:33 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Resolute Conservative

The one guy was already near retirement age. The other, I don’t know what kind of provisions he made.


19 posted on 05/04/2016 8:25:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: rktman

I don’t visit a doctor unless I’m reasonably sure I’m dying. Haven’t done so in 10 years

99% of the time a disease you can easily pick up in the office/hospital is WAY worse than what is troubling you


20 posted on 05/04/2016 8:27:13 AM PDT by varyouga
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-42 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson