Death by Health Care
The last and largest category of “Adverse Drug Effects” are people who die from unintended and undesired effects of a drug, at normal doses. Even with the use of approved medication and correct procedures, over two hundred thousand people die every year from the medication that is supposed to be making them healthier. More than 33,000 soldiers have died in the war in Iraq since 2003, that means every single year three times more people die from prescription medication than all the soldiers fighting in an actual war. There is a war happening right in our homes.
“Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists”
A tragedy happened on September 11th which will be remembered for centuries. 2,996 people lost their lives and thousands more injured as four commercial airlines crashed that day. But what if six jumbo jets crashed every single day for an entire year totaling 783,936 deaths? Wouldn’t that be a cause for concern, some grounds Preview -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. Most people who take these drugs according to their physicians' directions do not experience serious side effects, but some do. Some people have severe allergic reactions, some suffer heart attacks or seizures, and some experience organ damage because of the prescription drugs they take. One of the most common serious drug problems is liver damage because most medicines taken by mouth are ultimately processed through the liver.
In addition to the negative side effects induced by individual drugs, some drugs interact negatively with certain foods or with other drugs.
"With so many people on so many pills, small wonder that part of the increase in healthcare costs is illness caused by drug interactions. A Queen's University study of seniors' medication released in January, for example, found that in 96% of cases studied, doctors' knowledge of their patients' medication use was inaccurate. On average, the patients had a daily dose of seven medications." Candis McLean, "The real drug pushers," Report Newsmagazine, March 19, 2001.
So why are people becoming sicker and sicker, even with the advancements in healthcare? You must understand that the whole idea of disease eradication is by its very nature incompatible with, and completely opposed to the interests of the pharmaceutical investment industry. The elimination of diseases will eliminate the multibillion dollar profits, and thus destroy the whole industry. Most pharmaceutical companies are publicly traded corporations whose ONLY object is to increase profits. Their sole interest is selling you drugs for your symptoms, so you keep on coming back for more. They take advantage of peoples’ vulnerabilities and sell you ineffective drugs with so many side effects that you will need a few more kidneys and livers just to deal with these toxic poisons.
At best, most drugs just suppress the symptoms of diseases only for a short while. However, because they are making the body do something unnatural, and because they are made from highly poisonous chemicals, they cause other bodily systems to fail causing a snowball effect where more drugs are needed to cope with the side effects of previous drugs and so on.
If you are taking non-prescription over the counter or prescription drugs on a regular basis, and you are under the age of 60, it is a well known fact that these drugs WILL cause you serious medical conditions later on in life. Just read the complications and side effects printout with your medication.
"In every year since 1982, the drug industry has been the most profitable in the United States, according to Fortune magazine's rankings. During this time, the drug industry's returns on revenue (profit as a percent of sales) have averaged about three times the average for all other industries represented in the Fortune 500." -Public Citizen Report, "Rx R&D Myths: The Case Against the Drug Industry's R&D 'Scare Card," July 23, 2001.
Legendary economist Paul Zane Pilzer has written, “What we call the ‘health care’ business is really the sickness business. The $1.4 trillion we spend on medical care is concerned with treating the symptoms of sickness. It has very little to do with being stronger or healthier.” Pilzer predicts that wellness is destined to become a trillion dollar industry.
Think about it, if your doctor has, let’s say, 300 patients, and they all become healthy – nobody is coming into his office anymore, he's broke! What incentive does he have to keep you healthy? None! This may sound a little harsh but even the hands of the good doctors are tied, because even if they do know some alternative treatment, they can only prescribe drugs and surgery or risk losing their license, being sued, ridiculed, or thrown out of high job positions, as many honest doctors already have been.
A cured patient is a lost source of income. A sick patient who is marginally "improved" is a manageable patient.
“This guy’s doctor told him he had six months to live. The guy said he couldn’t pay his bill. The doctor gave him another six months.”
Managing patients means routine office visits and renewing of drug prescriptions. Therefore, a manageable patient is a continuing source of income; a cash cow if you will. Multiply that by a few billion people and you get an idea why this deceit is being put upon you. The profits from the so called "healthcare" industry are staggering!
The thrust of the pharmaceutical agenda is to provide temporary relief, while never addressing the cause of the disease condition. This agenda insures regular visits to the doctor's office and requires the patient to routinely return to the pharmacy to refill his prescriptions. This is what the game is all about folks, plain and simple. Deny it, or understand how the system works and get healthy; it’s your choice.
"People think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day."
Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr Herbert Ley, in testimony before a US Senate hearing. (This doesn't just apply to the United States; the multibillion dollar drug companies have their grasp on every country in the world)
"They are running a monopoly and they will lie, cheat and steal to keep it that way."
--- Dr Eva Snead
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