Medical Care Is #1 Cause of Death in US

The British Medical Journal (5-3-2016) cited safety researchers that 251,000 die from medical error in the US yearly, reported also by Washington Post as making medical care the #3 cause of death, but this fails to see why it’s #1.

“Adverse Drug Reactions were reported as causing 106,000 deaths in hospitals by JAMA, 4-15-1998. The Western Journal of Medicine reported 199,000 deaths as outpatients (June, 2000). Combining deaths in and out of hospitals makes 305,000, rivaling cancer and heart disease.

“The overlooked point is the definition of ADR’s as ‘properly prescribed and administered,’ not an error! The patient took an Rx for their diagnosis, but just reacted adversely, unexpectedly–no way to predict it, and the more drugs one takes, the more likely he or she will have a problem, The above Western Journal shows that for every death, 550 people were sick enough to see their doctor again, 40 were sick enough to enter the hospital and 15 were put into nursing homes—huge morbidity and mortality.

That data is nearly 20 years old. Deaths from Adverse Drug Events increased 2.7 fold from 1998 to 2005 (Archives of Internal Med, 9-10-2007) and if that increase has continued due to the cause continuing (TV drug ads begun in 1997, approved by US Congress are going strong), the deaths per year are now ~ 2 million. It’s like two 9-11′s daily.

Congress grounded all planes on 9-11. Why don’t they act now? Visiting US Senate offices with the above medical reports, one senator said, ‘You are wasting your time—they own us,” speaking of drug company donations to their re-election campaigns. Where is their oath of office to protect us?

Still the above numbers fail to convey the facts. A high percentage of “cancer deaths” are due to the drugs they are taking. The causes of death are totalled by what the doctor puts on the death certificate, and no doctor wants to say that his prescription killed the patient. They write that cancer was the cause of death.

The same is true for heart disease. Two thirds of those who die of heart disease are over 75. Many if not most of them are in nursing homes where the average number of prescriptions in 2010 was 11, according to one administrator. With the above info in mind, can we see why those who died of “heart disease” may have died from their drugs, but with no autopsy, (rarely done on nursing home patients) who knows?

Pharmacology is a false science. They don’t do long term studies—they don’t want to know the long term results! It evolved from toxicology—how much of a chemical kills half the rats. Not much has changed.

A personal experience: Norma Ruhling was a chiropractor’s daughter and didn’t believe in drugs, but didn’t know what to do for a urinary infection, so she “asked her doctor” who prescribed Cipro. She took it as prescribed till she was ok, but months later, got small blood spots in her skin. She had no blood platelets in her bone marrow and after splenectomy, transfusions, gamma globulin and steroids, she died of a stroke.

Her hematologist signed the death certificate as Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. Idiopathic often means idiotic on the part of the physician and pathetic for the patient.

The Physician’s Desk Reference, (3500 pages of fine print listing dozens if not a hundred things the drug can do to you) showed Cipro can cause the platelet loss from the bone marrow. A colleague from med school spent 9 months in bed after taking Cipro. Another MD-friend said he got very sick after just one dose of Cipro, yet our Congress and courts give pharma a free pass; it’s almost impossible to sue them while they rack up billions in profit.

America, “the land of the free and home of the brave” is becoming a land of greed and home of the slave. Millions of Americans are in bondage to the medical system for symptomatic relief when drugs for chronic conditions do not cure, and they may soon need Rx’s for other symptoms that seem to come from no where.

While doing yearly physicals on executives at Loma Linda, one said sugar bothered his joints. Another said cheese gave him arthritis. A third said meat caused his joint problems. These were smart men who figured out how they could live well without a prescription.

Big pharma wrote much if not most of the 20,000-page monstrosity of Obamacare that makes prescription drugs funded by tax dollars. Why should we pay taxes to pay for “healthcare” of others who care less about what they eat, drink or smoke?

Because healthcare is a personal matter depending so much on what we choose to eat, it’s only right that we should pay our own costs. If we were born “normal” as 97% are, our health later reflects what we’ve put in our mouths since birth. Our bodies are built from food we give it.

This doesn’t mean high protein as most people think, A dvd featuring Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Esselstyn (Clinton’s cardiologist) offers excellent insights–5 minutes of it is seen at http://RichardRuhling.com

Dr. Richard Ruhling is author of Why You Shouldn’t Ask Your Doctor and other ebooks with mostly 4-5 star reviews available cheap on Amazon at http://amzn.to/1JTMjY9, also free on Saturdays in May.