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on which to look over the airline industry, a valid reason to inspect airplanes or
maybe totally get rid of them?
Well, according to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine, by
Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith,
783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine
mistakes. 106,000 of those are from properly prescribed prescription drugs,
according to Death by Medicine. That also is a conservative number. Some experts
estimate it should be more like 200,000 because of unreported cases of adverse drug
reactions. That’s three times deadlier than automobile fatalities.
This makes prescription drug death the fourth leading killer after heart disease,
cancer and stroke. Look at these numbers more carefully, that’s about 300 deaths
per day from regular prescription drugs, yet when an airplane crashes it gets more
media attention and governmental scrutiny than the 300 medication-related deaths
which occurred not only on the same day as the airline crash, but also every day
before and after for decades.
"Prescription drugs…account for more deaths each year than all murders, auto
accidents and airplane crashes combined. It is estimated that 100,000 people die
every year from the adverse effects of prescription drugs, and 1 million are injured
so severely they require hospitalization." Thomas Moore, " Prescription drug risks
are too high " The Miami Herald, April 12, 1998, p. 6L.
"It has been estimated that fatalities directly attributable to adverse drug reactions
are the fourth to sixth leading cause of death in US hospitals, exceeding deaths
caused by pneumonia and diabetes. The economic burden resulting from drug-
related morbidity and mortality is equally significant and has been conservatively
estimated at $US30 billion dollars annually, and could exceed $US130 billion in a
worst-case scenario." White TJ, Araakelian A, Rho JP, " Counting the costs of drug-
related adverse events " Pharmacoeconomics, 15(5): 445-58, May 1999.
"David Lawrence, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the nation's oldest HMO, calls
medication errors 'the number one public health risk in the United States, ahead of
tobacco, alcohol, [illegal] drugs, or guns." Ted Sandoval, " Cutting Medication Errors
Requires Proactive Steps " Web MD, Medcast, June 20, 2000.
All drugs have negative side effects, even aspirin. However, prescription drugs have
far more potentially dangerous side effects than do over-the-counter medications.
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