{"id":11061,"date":"2015-05-20T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2015-05-20T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:33:47","slug":"conventional-medicine-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11061","title":{"rendered":"Conventional Medicine Is The Leading Cause Of Death In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe American medical system is the number one killer in the United States.\u201d
\nThat\u2019s the provocative claim made in this video produced by Mercola.com, the online home of wellness expert and bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola.
\nBut the video, titled \u201cThe Death of Blind Faith,\u201d backs up its words with some sobering statistics. It lays 8 million deaths in one decade at the feet of conventional medicine \u2014 more than the combined American deaths in every war the nation has ever fought.
\n\u201cDo you have faith in conventional medicine?\u201d the video asks. \u201cHow long can you turn a blind eye to the Truth?\u201d
\nThe film points out that 7,000 patients die each year because of sloppy handwriting while 1.5 million are hurt by preventable medication mistakes. There are 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures annually, and at least 106,000 deaths from adverse reactions to drugs.
\nIn fact, over half of the people in the United States have been given medical treatment unnecessarily, or 50,000 people per day. Out of all Americans, 42 percent have been affected by a medical mistake, and 84 percent know someone who has been.
\nWhen patients do have adverse reactions to drugs, the video claims, only 6 percent are properly identified; instead, doctors blame the patent\u2019s illness by improperly diagnosing new symptoms, and prescribe more unnecessary procedures and medications to combat them. The kicker? The reactions are often known side effects. They are expected to occur in a certain percentage of patients. It\u2019s the price of doing business with the modern medical system.
\nAnd it\u2019s getting worse. In the last five years, the video states, the mortality rate for people between 45 and 64 who took their drugs correctly rose 90 percent.
\n\u201cModern medicine is no longer about health,\u201d the video declares. \u201cIt is a for-profit disease industry that can only survive if millions of people get sick, and stay that way.\u201d
\n\u201cIt\u2019s an industry that refuses to consider vitally important aspects of health, like how stress lowers the immune system,\u201d it continues, \u201chow processed foods, alcohol, excessive calories and insufficient exercise are recipes for disease; how exposure to the tens of thousands of toxins in our environment, and in our food supply, have direct links to the illnesses you suffer.\u201d
\nIndeed, Americans spend 90 percent of their food budgets on unhealthy options like processed food and soda, which contributes to a 33 percent diabetes or pre-diabetes rate, a 66 percent overweight rate and a 50 percent obesity rate.
\nOur solution? Toxic medications that further degrade people\u2019s health and make them reliant on a perpetual financial relationship with pharmaceutical companies.
\nMeanwhile, the industry is getting rich. Pfizer was the most profitable company in the Fortune 500 listing as of 2001, netting a healthy $7.8 billion.
\nThat\u2019s money coming out of our pockets. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2006. Despite that massive sum, the performance of our medical system is unarguably sub-par. Yet people return to the doctors and pharmacies over and over again, feeling like they have no other choice but to turn over their hard earned cash for dubious medical interventions.
\nAlthough the video was published in 2007, the information continues to be relevant as medical and pharmaceutical profits increase significantly year after year. According to the accounting and financial services company Doloitte, the United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world, with spending per capita being roughly twice that of other developed economies. As a result, in 2013, an estimated $2.8 trillion was spent on health care, with projections of continued cost increases. Doloitte also suggests in a report titled Dig Deep ? Impacts and Implications of Rising Out?of?Pocket Health Care Costs that this does not include hidden, out-of-pocket costs to consumers, which would make the numbers even higher.
\n\u201cAre you ready to stand up and take charge of your health?\u201d the Mercola video demands. \u201cOr will you let Big Pharma take you down and cover it up?\u201d
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\u201cThe American medical system is the number one killer in the United States.\u201d That\u2019s the provocative claim made in this video produced by Mercola.com, the online home of wellness expert and bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola. But the video, titled \u201cThe Death of Blind Faith,\u201d backs up its words with some sobering statistics. It lays … <\/p>\n

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