{"id":385,"date":"2011-03-13T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dilworth2lead.com\/blogpol\/?p=385"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:17:45","slug":"how-many-deaths-are-caused-by-doctors-and-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/how-many-deaths-are-caused-by-doctors-and-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Deaths are Caused by Doctors and Hospitals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><strong>Preventable American Deaths Yearly<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<strong>435,000 Tobacco<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 365,000 Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3181\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/how-many-deaths-are-caused-by-doctors-and-hospitals\/drevil\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3181\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3181\" title=\"Dr MalPractice - More Common than You Thought\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DrEvil.jpg\" alt=\"Dr MalPractice - More Common than You Thought\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DrEvil.jpg 225w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DrEvil-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr MalPractice &#8211; More Common than You Thought<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>100,000 \u2013 200,000 Medical Error Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Health-Care-IT\/Experts-Seek-Answers-Behind-Error-Death-Data\/\">Estimates range from 40,000 to 98,000 to 200,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iatrogenesis\">Iatrogenic<\/a>\u201d means <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medical_malpractice\">Doctor caused Deaths<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A handful&#8221; = The number of doctors removed from the Medical field because they caused a patient death. (The actual numbers are unknown because the AMA seems to take great efforts to hide this information.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nosocomial\">Nocosomial<\/a>\u201d means Hospital Caused Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Never_events\">&#8220;Never Events&#8221; are inexcusable outcomes in a health care setting (e.g. surgery on wrong body part)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><strong> 85,000 Alcohol<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 75,000 Microbial Agents<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 55,000 Toxic Agents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>33,000 (2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year\">Motor Vehicle Deaths<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>32,000 Adverse Prescription Drug Reactions<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 30,622 Suicide<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 29,000 Incidents Involving Firearms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20,308 Murder<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 20,000 Sexual Behaviors<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 17,000 Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7,600 Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (Aspirin)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 00,000 Marijuana (that&#8217;s right &#8211; Zero.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So to summarize &#8211; there is no disagreement among experts that <strong>at the very least some 40,000 Americans Die of Medical Malpractice every year<\/strong> (and more likely 200,000) and yet only &#8220;a handful&#8221; of doctors are ever removed from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t it seem more reasonable that every doctor that causes any of those 200,000 deaths should be permanently removed from medical practice?<\/p>\n<p>This is dramatic evidence the <strong class=\"StrictlyAutoTagBold\">American Medical<\/strong> establishment does not voluntarily police its deadly doctors. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/news\/20020626\/ama-declares-war-on-malpractice-crisis?page=1\">Instead of going after the murderous doctors, the AMA&#8217;s &#8220;top legislative priority&#8221; is halting and minimizing claims from victims of those doctors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a helpful article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/patients.about.com\/od\/doctorinformationwebsites\/a\/malpracticeinfo.htm\">How to Find a Doctor&#8217;s Medical Malpractice Track Record<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preventable American Deaths Yearly 435,000 Tobacco 365,000 Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity 100,000 \u2013 200,000 Medical Error Deaths Estimates range from 40,000 to 98,000 to 200,000 \u201cIatrogenic\u201d means Doctor caused Deaths &#8220;A handful&#8221; = The number of doctors removed from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/how-many-deaths-are-caused-by-doctors-and-hospitals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9402,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/9402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}