Indeed it does... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/43328.php
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
