Even more significantly, the medical system has played a large role in undermining the health of Americans. According to several research studies in the last decade, a total of 225,000 Americans per year have died as a result of their medical treatments:
I think they need to clean their own house first.
Most “gun violence” in America is actually black people violence, and the greatest cause of death for young black man is another young black man.
Maybe the leftist doc, who is, darn it “fed up”, should look into that instead, instead of pursuing an agenda that leaves law abiding Americans defenseless.
It is a mistake to believe "facts" produced by Democrats. During the Clinton regime, an academic friend of the Clintons conocted a "study". He reviewed hospital records of people in New York who died. He looked for medical "errors" (by his definition). He then asked himself "could this have caused death?" He answered himself "yes" enough times to "estimate" that more than 90,000 deaths per year were caused by medical malpractice across the country. A colleague performed the same study on Colorado data and came up with an "estimate" of more than 40,000.
When two numbers allegedly derived using the same "scientific" method differ by either 50% or 100% (depending which direction you look), no sane person would consider the numbers to signify anything. The Democrats decided to add the numbers together and came up with 130,000. Another Democrat decided to double that number, and came up with 250,000 or so.
In the 2 decades since the "study" was produced, the CDC has not seen fit to include "iatrogenic" (or medical error) as a cause. The major causes are still cancer and heart disease. While there are no doubt some deaths caused by "medical error" (e.g., the janitor in New York who unplugged a life support machine in order to be able to run a vacuum cleaner), there have not been enough to even warrant a category. The Obama regime has had control of the CDC, and the regime is not friendly to the medical profession.
From:
Deaths and Mortality
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
Heart disease: 614,348
Cancer: 591,699
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,101
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 136,053
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 133,103
Alzheimer's disease: 93,541
Diabetes: 76,488
Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,227
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 48,146
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 42,773
From:
Deaths: Final Data for 2013
Injury mortality by mechanism and intent
In 2013, a total of 192,945 deaths were classified as injuryrelated...
Four major mechanisms of injury in 2013—poisoning, motor-vehicle traffic, firearm, and fall— accounted for 76.3% of all injury deaths.
Poisoning—In 2013, 48,545 deaths occurred as the result of poisonings, 25.2% of all injury deaths ...
Motor-vehicle traffic—In 2013, motor-vehicle traffic-related injuries resulted in 33,804 deaths, accounting for 17.5% of all injury deaths ...
Firearm—In 2013, 33,636 persons died from firearm injuries in the United States (Tables 18 and 19), accounting for 17.4% of all injury deaths in that year....
Fall—In 2013, 31,240 persons died as the result of falls, 16.2% of all injury deaths ...
The study has been used by trial lawyers to wave in the face of juries, resulting in big paydays. No doubt the trial lawyers financed the "study".
Given the greed of trial lawyers and the enormous amounts of money awarded, the number of awards should provide an upper bound to the actual number of cases of malpractice.
From:
29 Statistics on Medical Malpractice Payouts and Lawsuits
Medical malpractice payouts
1. Dollars in payouts: $3.6 billion (3.4 percent less than in 2011)
2. Total payouts for medical malpractice: 12,142 (one every 43 minutes)
3. Payouts resulting from judgments: 5 percent
4. Payouts resulting from settlements: 93 percent
...
Severity of alleged injury in medical malpractice claims
13. Death: 31 percent
In other words, assuming that every award was justifiable and no health care provider was ever wrongly found at fault, there were approximately 3800 cases of malpractice causing death. Of course, the lottery mentality encouraged by outrageous awards and no "loser pays costs" rule means that many of the awards are unjust. Even so, the total number of alleged medical malpractice deaths is less than 40% of the deaths due to drunk drivers (about 10,000 per year).
No doubt the trial lawyers took good care of the academics who performed the original "study". No doubt Bloomberg and company will take good care of anyone who can do a similar "study" on gun violence.