While I'm at it, here's an excellent deconstruction of the whole "third leading cause of death" myth about medical errors. The actual number of deaths due to medical error is AT LEAST an order of magnitude smaller than the scare numbers. http://www.medicalevidenceblog.com/2018/12/doctors-and-medical-errors-kill-more.html …
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Can you point me to best article. I was just arguing w friend about this.....need back up.
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It's a claim Peter Gøtzsche makes on his GoFundMe page... "Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche has shown in his research that the results of this is that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer (1)..."https://www.gofundme.com/scientific-freedom …
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Reference 1 is, to the surprise of no one who knows Gøtzsche, a book by one Peter Gøtzsche...
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I've heard that trope repeated over and over. Do you have a good debunk of it or link to the studies that make the claim? I've never had an alt-med fan ever cite their source.
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Here’s one from Dr Gorski, where he spends most of his time debunking quackery. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s/ …
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Can you explain how “the medical system” causes type 2 DM and heart disease (I’m assuming you’re referring to coronary artery disease)?
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Did the analysis upon which those articles came from - sadly less than 50 patients. I like food as medicine, but I do prefer antibiotics, vaccines, statins, chemo and MRI’s - and a good burger
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Third leading cause of death is overstated but as I almost died from prolonged misdiagnoses, my son was permanently injured by one, and my mom was under-treated for asthma and died, it does exist. I don’t think my family’s issues would have been counted in any study.
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Sure there are alt-med crackpots, but the financial incentives are to understate mistakes & deaths. And this ignores indirect mistakes that go undetected w/o follow up (e.g., mis-diagnoses). Thus, critique is mostly laughable. #'s probably higher. W/O good data we won't know.
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