Is Your Health Care System Killing You?
| Cause of Death | Deaths | Cost | Author |
| Pharmaceuticals | 106,000 | $12 billion | Lazarou1 Suh49 |
| Medical error | 98,000 | $2 billion | IOM6 |
| Bedsores while hospitalized | 115,000 | $55 billion | Xakellis7 Barczak8 |
| Infection while hospitalized | 88,000 | $5 billion | Weinstein9 MMWR10 |
| Malnutrition while hospitalized | 108,800 | ———– | Nurses Coalition11 |
| Outpatient Drug reactions | 199,000 | $77 billion | Starfield12 Weingart112 |
| Unnecessary Procedures | 37,136 | $122 billion | HCUP3, 13 |
| Surgery-Related | 32,000 | $9 billion | AHRQ85 |
| ANNUAL TOTAL | 783,936Deaths! | $282 billionDollars! |
Does this sound like health care to you?
Statistics by: By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD Full Report: http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/7/healthcare_death.htm
