Posted on 10/26/2005 7:46:34 PM PDT by AmericanDave
# Medical Mistakes:
* According to a 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine, 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die unnecessarily every year from medical mistakes made by health care professionals. (30 Nov. 1999 Washington Post, 30 Nov. 1999 AP, or pretty much any news source that day.)
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* 29,247,142 legal abortions were performed in the United States, 1970-95. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 47 No. SS-2) * Estimated abortions worldwide: 527M to 836M (1920-2000) [http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/wrjp333sd.html]
Oops, error in post, the auther is a Mathew White; sorry.
Here's the annual highway death toll last reported, year 2000:
Persons Killed 41,717 41,821 +0.2%
Unfortunatley, some of our troops make it safely back from Iraq only to die on the nations highways.
And just how many of those "mistakes" occur during unnecessary tests performed defensively to thwart malpractice lawsuits?
If your talking CYA testing, ther'e a LOT of that going on!
16,000+ were murdered in the U.S. last year (or the year before). Compared to 2,000 killed in Iraq during the past 2-1/2 years.
It does put things into perspective.
Yes, I know. I drives up the costs for all the rest of us.
Godd@mn lawyers are in our pockets everywhere you turn!
Local news tonight is letting "anti war" protestors quote this 100K Iraqis dead figure completely unchallenged of course. I wonder what the real number is. They can obviously just pull some number out of the air.
Or to inflate or otherwise pad a bill?
Like the "million mom march"? about 4 times overblown....
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