Originally Posted By: dnewton3
Originally Posted By: CourierDriver
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health/hospital-acquired-infections/index.htm I thought gun control was a top priority, but what about hospitals....?
To coin Al's phrase, this is probably the most "inconvenient truth" that exists today.
A few years ago I posted a detailed, thorough run-down of how iatrogenisis causes approximately 9000x more accidental deaths than guns. (Yes, that is nine-thousand times; not a typo). Even if you include murder with guns, the medical profession still kills WAY, WAY more people than guns ever will in the US. Far more. There is ZERO DEBATE if you truly understand the actual data. And I did not "skew" my data; I used the following credible sources:
FBI crime data
BLS work data
DOJ crime data
CDC medial compilation data
AMA journal data
etc.
Your question is answered thus:
It is a combination of ignorance and arrogance; most people don't know, and those that do hide it due to "convictions" that push them, shall we say, in directional dogma.
Exactly, it is acceptable for a few plane load of people to die every so many weeks due to adverse medication interaction. Some of them are due to Doctors' handwriting being illegible. Some due to negligence. But the mantra of the medical industry to defend their wrong doings.
As they say doctor's get to bury their mistakes.
Think, what kinda outrage we would have if pedophiles were judged by pedophiles. Well that happens in the medical industry.
Remember the Michael Jackson doctor who prescribed him meds that is solely used in surgery? well the physician board did not take his lic. away. He lost it cuz he was convicted of the felony.