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DEATH AND MORBITY OF COMMON MEDICAL TREATMENTS
“In 1994, Cloud reported the following complications from medical therapy:
1.5 million people will be hospitalized annually because of
iatrogenic (physician caused) reactions, and 100,000 will die.
1,000 people will die this week from complications of surgery that was
unnecessary.
1,600 children will die this year from allergic reaction to aspirin, and
thousands of people will die this year from anaphylactic reactions to prescribed
drugs.
“Dr. Lucian Leape (adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of
Public Health) estimated that one million patients nationwide are injured by
medical errors during hospital treatment each year, and 120,000 patients die
because of medical error. That’s equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every day
and is three times more the number of people killed each year in U.S.
motor-vehicle accidents…They found out that one out every 200 patients died as a
result of a hospital mistake, and that errors accounted for 69% of injuries
caused by medical treatment that lengthened hospitalization or led to a
disability upon discharge.”