Comments on: 225,000 Innocent American’s Killed Last Year – You Won’t Believe How… http://mesicstraining.com/2009/03/16/225000-innocent-american%e2%80%99s-killed-last-year-%e2%80%93-you-won%e2%80%99t-believe-how/ Conquer Anxiety - MESICS Training Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:07:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: drjim http://mesicstraining.com/2009/03/16/225000-innocent-american%e2%80%99s-killed-last-year-%e2%80%93-you-won%e2%80%99t-believe-how/comment-page-1/#comment-7 drjim Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:48:41 +0000 http://mesicstraining.com/?p=615#comment-7 Dear “What’s New”—thank you for your comments and question. Going forward, when you post, please leave a real e-mail address. Please help us. We need to sort out what’s spam and what’s not. I understand your concern, and your question is a great one. I don’t think of Dr. Starfield’s findings as “old” news. I and many others regard her findings as a “discovery” that’s not limited to any particular year. I regard her data as unveiling the problem of preventable deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in our health care system on an annual basis. The conditions that give rise to these deaths continue today and the data won’t change in any significant way until they do. Dr. Starfield noted to me that she feels her findings apply today. My intent is not to present a science journal. I want to call attention to a serious problems and to offer readers perspective on how to protect themselves. Dr. Starfield also noted that the United States is now ranked between 30th and 40th in the world, depending upon health measures. That’s worse than scandalous, not only because of the expense of our system but also because most illnesses can be prevented. A 2008 study conducted by HealthGrades showed 238,337 preventable deaths caused by medical errors in hospital settings. Note this study was for hospitalized Medicare patients only. It did not include data for deaths associated with non Medicare patients or with physicians outside of hospitals. http://www.healthgrades.com/media/DMS/pdf/HealthGradesPatientSafetyRelease2008.pdf Note as well, a 6 part well-referenced article posted by Dr. Joseph Mercola in 2004 and written by Dr. Gary Null and his colleagues. They presented data arguing that Dr. Starfield’s data underestimated the problem. Their data showed 783,936 unnecessary doctor and hospital caused deaths annually at a cost of $282 billion, as follows: Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000 $12 billion, Medical error 98,000 $2 billion, Bedsores 115,000 $55 billion, Infection 88,000 $5 billion, Malnutrition 108,800 -------- Outpatients 199,000 $77 billion, Unnecessary Procedures 37,136 $122 billion, Surgery-Related 32,000 $9 billion. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/07/healthcare-death-part-one.aspx Dear “What’s New”—thank you for your comments and question. Going forward, when you post, please leave a real e-mail address. Please help us. We need to sort out what’s spam and what’s not.

I understand your concern, and your question is a great one.

I don’t think of Dr. Starfield’s findings as “old” news. I and many others regard her findings as a “discovery” that’s not limited to any particular year. I regard her data as unveiling the problem of preventable deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in our health care system on an annual basis. The conditions that give rise to these deaths continue today and the data won’t change in any significant way until they do. Dr. Starfield noted to me that she feels her findings apply today.

My intent is not to present a science journal. I want to call attention to a serious problems and to offer readers perspective on how to protect themselves. Dr. Starfield also noted that the United States is now ranked between 30th and 40th in the world, depending upon health measures. That’s worse than scandalous, not only because of the expense of our system but also because most illnesses can be prevented.

A 2008 study conducted by HealthGrades showed 238,337 preventable deaths caused by medical errors in hospital settings. Note this study was for hospitalized Medicare patients only. It did not include data for deaths associated with non Medicare patients or with physicians outside of hospitals.
http://www.healthgrades.com/media/DMS/pdf/HealthGradesPatientSafetyRelease2008.pdf

Note as well, a 6 part well-referenced article posted by Dr. Joseph Mercola in 2004 and written by Dr. Gary Null and his colleagues. They presented data arguing that Dr. Starfield’s data underestimated the problem. Their data showed 783,936 unnecessary doctor and hospital caused deaths annually at a cost of $282 billion, as follows: Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000 $12 billion, Medical error 98,000 $2 billion, Bedsores 115,000 $55 billion, Infection 88,000 $5 billion, Malnutrition 108,800 ——– Outpatients 199,000 $77 billion, Unnecessary Procedures 37,136 $122 billion, Surgery-Related 32,000 $9 billion. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/07/healthcare-death-part-one.aspx

]]> By: What's New? http://mesicstraining.com/2009/03/16/225000-innocent-american%e2%80%99s-killed-last-year-%e2%80%93-you-won%e2%80%99t-believe-how/comment-page-1/#comment-5 What's New? Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:48:41 +0000 http://mesicstraining.com/?p=615#comment-5 This is old news! Starfield published this information about 9 years ago in 2000? What are the numbers today? Have they improved at all or gotten worse? Is the system still broken or has it improved? This is old news!

Starfield published this information about 9 years ago in 2000?

What are the numbers today? Have they improved at all or gotten worse?

Is the system still broken or has it improved?

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