{"id":140,"date":"2005-09-28T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2005\/09\/28\/death-due-to-our-medical-system\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T01:18:00","slug":"death-due-to-our-medical-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Death due to our medical &quot;system&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top three causes of <strong>Unnecessary Deaths<\/strong> in the United States are related to our health care system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The number one cause of unnecessary death in the United States, called Iatrogenic deaths  (783,986) is shown in the table below, re-printed by permission of the auth<\/p>\n<p>Hospital Adverse Drug Reaction &#8211; 106,000 deaths; at a cost of $12 billion<br \/>\nMedical error &#8211; 98,000 deaths; at a cost of $2 billion<br \/>\nBedsores &#8211; 115,000 deaths; at a cost of\t$55 billion<br \/>\nInfection &#8211; 88,000 deaths; at a cost of\t$5 billion<br \/>\nMalnutrition &#8211; 108,800 deaths<br \/>\nOutpatient Adverse Drug Reaction &#8211; 199,000 deaths; at a cost of $77 billion<br \/>\nUnnecessary Procedures &#8211; 37,136 deaths; at a cost of $122 billion<br \/>\nSurgery-Related &#8211; 32,000 deaths; at a cost of $9 billion<\/p>\n<p>TOTAL deaths that are unnecessary and caused by our health care system &#8211; 783,936; at a cost of $282 billion<\/p>\n<p>The number two cause of unnecessary death in the United States is Heart Disease. Statistics show &#8220;The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The number three cause of unnecessary death in the United States is Cancer.  Statistics show &#8220;the annual cancer death rate, 553,251.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The total number of known unnecessary deaths, per year, directly due to the American Medical System is 2,036,884.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top three causes of Unnecessary Deaths in the United States are related to our health care system&#8230; The number one cause of unnecessary death in the United States, called Iatrogenic deaths (783,986) is shown in the table below, re-printed <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=140\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}