I hope you heard the news that MEDICAL ERRORS are now the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Just so it sinks in a little bit; there’s heart disease, cancer, and MEDICAL ERRORS as your top 3 most likely ways of dying this year. What’s the 5th leading cause of death in the US (of course, not listed)? Non-error effects from medication use. You got the right diagnosis, the right treatment, and the treatment killed you.
A quarter of a million people will die because someone said “oops, my bad,” that is contracted with your insurance plan. 100k die from the treatment itself. I started this website to help people create a culture of health so they don’t have to use the healthcare system because of inefficiencies and ineffectiveness. This latest news takes it to a whole new level. Let’s say that by you reading my posts it did nothing to prevent your heart disease and cancer risk of dying but it kept you away from taking medications or having surgery…this would be an enormously successful outcome, saving the lives of 350k people each year.
After all, 1/3 of medical spending is for “services that don’t appear to improve health or the quality of care—and may make things worse.”