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 ...
exactly. except for one, no one has gotten out alive.
The Feds took over the Medical Laboratories in 1988. It was called CLIA, the Congressional Laboratories Improvement Act. They put in all sorts of very expensive regulations, and included how much work was the recommended ‘ceiling’ in a 24 hour period. You may have guessed the ‘ceiling’ became the quota. Far more work than I had ever been able to do for a ‘day’s work for a day’s pay’. Their regulations are destroying my field. I retired early as I could no longer stand the constant manipulation of the techs. Government oversight of my field has NOT lead to better laboratory results. Government oversight of all medical care will be a disaster. I don’t blame the docs for retiring. They never wanted to be under the constraints of a Government who reveres the bottom fiscal line as paramount.
Well, two, actually.
That is the God's honest truth! And this is just one of the reasons why the vast majority of the crap we are fed about health insurance is a load of bunk. If you want to stay healthy pay attention to what your body is telling you but avoid going to the doctor or hospital for minor stuff.
One time we went to a little old man who had taken a fall and he didn't want to go to the hospital. His complaints were relatively minor. But his kids, his wife, and the paramedics all wanted him to go in and get checked out. So he went to the hospital with our paramedics. They released him the same day.
While he was at the hospital he picked up a case of respiratory MERSA, which is a contagious bacterial infection which is resistant to medication. Within a month both he and his wife were dead. It is hard to say how exactly he picked up the MERSA infection, but hospital emergency rooms are notorious for spreading MERSA infections.
We often went to people who were literally taking well over a dozen different meds. Every time they would go to a doctor they would get prescribed another medication and one doctor often won't take someone often a med that another doctor has prescribed. The multiple meds literally will make people sicker. Sometimes when they are put on hospice care and they are taken off their meds they make what appears to be a miraculous recovery.
Of course I have to admit that I put up with some severe abdominal pain for almost a month. When I started turning an unusual color my wife who is a nurse told me that if I didn't go get it checked out she was going to kill me herself. I told her it was all of the nagging that was what was making my tummy hurt, but she seemed pretty serious about it and she is very good shot... so I went in.
My appendix had been ruptured for over a week and I had a bad infection. I scoffed at the doctor when I was told that I would die if they didn't do surgery immediately. But he seemed pretty serious about it. They had to open me up from hip bone to hip bone and pull out my intestines and wash them off to get it cleared up. It turned out that my stubbornness almost did result in my untimely demise. So there are some things that you shouldn't try to ignore.
If there are 250,000 deaths a year caused by doctors, and there are about 785,000 practicing physicians in the US, this means that, on average, 1 out of every 3 doctors causes the death of one patient per year.
Or put another way, each US doctor causes the death of 1 patient every 3 years.
Is this a reasonable estimate? I don’t know. Its possible.
I’ve got an idea - let’s force medical schools to ACCEPT MORE unqualified students in the ever insane quest to force artificial ‘fairness’...
Or better - to help the self esteem of failing high school students we could put them directly into medical schools and demand at least half of them become doctors...Fast and ‘fair’... It’ll be faster because they can go straight from high school to medical school without wasting four years in college ...
This is why we do not EVER want to dispose of the right to sue incompetent and careless medical facilities and individuals. They will treat us even worse.
I’m up to eight docs who quit that I know.
You can tell a big difference between the attitudes and ethics of the residents versus their older mentors. The vestiges of America’s Western medicine is on the way out. Obama sped it along.
I’ve been dealing with the best of the best in oncology since my diagnosis last summer. I’ve fired two of the best docs in the country. One wanted a full hysterectomy without further testing or reviewing my questionable path report. Jan Seski also allegedly illegally killed a lion in either Zimbabwe or Tanzania, I can’t remember which. Anyway, another superdoc wanted to open me up from abdomen to mid thigh and remove all the lymph nodes that he could reach. As it turns out, I have an extremely rare occurrence and this douche just wanted his name on my case. The first guy just wanted to use his fancy robot for another surgery. Not to mention, all the Cancer centers I’ve been in, and there are plenty, offer chemo patients “granola” bars, or glorified candy bars, and Ensure. Hello! Sugar?
Thoughts and prayers for you to overcome.
When doctors are banned, only criminals will be doctors.
I hear the medical care in Cuba is much better! /s
[[Not to knock doctors but I’ve always thought of hospitals as a place you got to die.]]
For some it’s a place where they go to have their life saved-
My wonderful cousin. Just 9 months ago. He trusted doctors and didn’t question them. He was in good health, blood pressure a little high. He didn’t need meds. Could have drink coconut water and exercised more is all. But he trusted them. They had him on baby aspirin for years, good for his heart (which had no problems). They had just given him a diuretic and a new blood pressure Med. He said the diuretic got him up several times a night to pee. And the new BP Med made him dizzy.
So one night his wife hears him get up around 1. Bam, his head hits the floor. He fell straight back. Unconscious for 15 mins, the paramedics revive him but insist on bringing him in. Then they insist on a brain scan. It shows a massive brain bleed. Because of the baby aspirin he’d been taking for years, they can’t stop the bleeding.
The three drugs caused his death.
Please be careful and question everything. Doctors have to cover their butts to avoid being sued, but that works against you.
Pleeeeeese in addition to oncology seek other treatment info as well. Be REALLY informed, not just CBS and NBC informed. Outside the box. Gd bless, praying.
Way ahead of firearms.
I’m doing Gerson. I did have surgery to remove the rest of the primary, which I was first told was a lymph node. I initially had a lump removed from my right groin. I was told it was a lymph node and that it was uterine sarcoma. My cousin is a pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering and she immediatly questioned the report. I had to aggressively demand further testing. A second report indicated osteo sarcoma. After being sent around the world, several paths came up with the same conclusion: epithelial sarcoma, and it’s not a node it’s the primary tumor. I had a second surgery to remove what was left and the margins are clean. It took from June 22 to January 9 to get a solid answer. I told a lot of intelligent people no. They don’t like that, but thank God I did.
Thanks.
Thank Gd you did!! You know what you are doing and you don’t worship the white coat nor the Oncology Lords.
Standing ovation from me!!!! Oncology is one source of information and not always the best source. But they are the trickiest source. They are like the Islam of cancer information because they believe theirs is the only way and if you don’t believe they say you will die.
Blessings for a full recovery.
I remember reading about how every time there is a doctor strike in England the death rate drops!
Practicing medicine means they are guessing many times.
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