Come on Doctor Broun, you and your doctor cohorts already kill 225,000 people a year! The shameful truth is that 3 out of 4 people whom I have know personally who have passed on died because of iatrogenic reasons (doctor inflicted). This is unacceptable. But when you are playing with knives and super chemicals these things are common place. So common that only heart disease and cancer claim more lives a year. Personally I believe the number is closer to 3x higher but this study is peer-reviewed and was published in JAMA so we will use this.

List of Deaths from JAMA:
12,000 — unnecessary surgery
7,000 — medication errors in hospitals
20,000 — other errors in hospitals
80,000 — infections in hospitals
106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs

Previous 2001 Calculation:
Condition Deaths Cost
Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000 $12 billion
Medical error 98,000 $2 billion
Bedsores 115,000 $55 billion
Infection 88,000 $5 billion
Malnutrition 108,800 ——–
Outpatients 199,000 $77 billion
Unnecessary Procedures 37,136 $122 billion
Surgery-Related 32,000 $9 billion
TOTAL 783,936 $282 billion

I’m not sure what I even want to say here – but the point is we need to reform the entire system from the ground up. I have little faith that this will happen in my lifetime. Unless… I take care of myself and avoid doctors as much as possible – I may live extra long to see something good come out of all this.

From Families USA:

In 2002, the Institute of Medicine released a groundbreaking report, Care without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late, which estimated that 18,000 adults nationwide died in 2000 because they did not have health insurance. Subsequently, The Urban Institute estimated that 22,000 adults died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance.