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>Did you know that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US, right after heart attack and cancer? Seems to me that "human" doctors are also
by assblaster 8y ago
>Did you know that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US, right after heart attack and cancer? Seems to me that "human" doctors are also a dangerous proposition.
Where's your citation?
Here's what the CDC says about leading causes of death:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/index.htm
Heart disease 257.6 (2000) 168.5 (2015) 165.5 (2016)
Cancer 199.6 (2000) 158.5 (2015) 155.8 (2016)
Chronic lower respiratory diseases 44.2 (2000) 41.6 (2015) 40.6 (2016)
Unintentional injuries 34.9 (2000) 43.2 (2015) 47.4 (2016)
Stroke 60.9 (2000) 37.6 (2015) 37.3 (2016)
Alzheimer's disease 18.1 (2000) 29.4 (2015) 30.3 (2016)
Diabetes 25.0 (2000) 21.3 (2015) 21.0 (2016)
Influenza and pneumonia 23.7 (2000) 15.2 (2015) 13.5 (2016)
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 13.5 (2000) 13.4 (2015) 13.1 (2016)
Suicide 10.4 (2000) 13.3 (2015) 13.5 (2016)
- m0zg 8y agoNotice that medical errors are conspicuously absent from your list. Super convenient: if you don't count 'em, it looks like nobody died. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/476636183/death-certificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/4766361...
- assblaster 8y agoAttributing death to a medical error instead of the underlying condition that would have been the cause of death anyway is missing the forest through the trees. If you go into the hospital because you have stage IV colon cancer, and you die because a palliative surgery resulted in infection, you died because of the colon cancer, not the infection.