Deripsni, Regarding your statistics -- they're useless.
Displaying a series with no reference to population is pointless. Making a correlation, in this case, with without a measure of frequency, is impossible. To then make an extrapolation from that series is pure fallacy. What would be interesting is to compare the annual death-rate across a number of areas (infection, cardiac, respiratory, autoimmune) by decade to see if the frequencies are getting better or wose. Maybe some Wolfram|Alpha analysis can help you? :) Aside from all this, did you read what you copy/pasted? "... highlighting these medical malpractice LAWSUIT statistics" Emphasis added. If your footnote is correct, then the only thing we do know is that the number of lawsuits is increasing. That says more about American legal culture than the effectiveness of medical treatment, doesn't it? Ian 2009/8/5 deripsni <[email protected]> > > Although I am not suggesting traditional medicine should not be used, > it is not always safe (Michael Jackson ring a bell?). The following is > an overveiw of deaths caused per year by malpractice in the USA alone. > In fact, doesn't this bring up the issue of whether one wants to put > their "faith" in the medical profession as it is suggested some are > doing with "quackery and juju"? > > "The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) produced an > article highlighting these medical malpractice lawsuit statistics, > with regard to patient deaths: > > >106,000 patients die each year from the negative effects of medication > > >80,000 patients die each year due to complications from infections > incurred in hospitals > > >20,000 deaths per year occur from other hospital errors > > >12,000 people die every year as a result of unnecessary surgery > > >7,000 medical malpractice deaths per year are attributed to medication > errors in hospitals > > This totals up to 225,000 deaths each year, due to medical negligence > of some nature. And that number is ever growing." > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
