Medical Errors: Still the 3rd Leading Cause of Death

The third leading cause of death is still the medical errors. It can take decades before a medical truth becomes accepted as fact, and recent headlines are a perfect example of this. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed that doctors are in fact the third leading cause of death in the U.S. A JAMA study was published in 2000 and written by Dr. Barbara Starfield. Her research documented how a staggering 225,000 Americans die from iatrogenic causes or, death is caused by a physician’s or hospital’s activity, manner or therapy. Her statistics showed that each year:

• 12,000 …read more