Thursday, October 25, 2012
Annotated Article 3
In this article, The Cancer Cure Foundation says that over 225,000 people die every year due to medical errors making it the number three killer. Over 2,000 deaths from unnecessary surgery, 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals, 80,000 deaths from infections in hospitals, and 106,000 deaths from non-error adverse effects of medications.More people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway accidents,breast cancer, and AIDS put together. Cancer Cure Foundation also states that if fatal reaction were added to medical errors it would be an extra 100,000 deaths would be added to the total every year.They also state that 60% of drug advertisements in medical journal violated FDA guidelines, yet the FDA did nothing about these violations. There are over 700,000 physicians in the U.S. and accidental deaths caused by physicians equals up to be 120,000 people a year.
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