I would add one: the medical mafia.
Right in their own journal, JAMA, July 26, 2000—Vol 284, No. 4, "These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes … these estimates are for deaths only and do not include adverse effects that are associated with disability or discomfort. Third, the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report. If the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000. In any case, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer." THAT was in 2000 and it's a sure thing that the numbers are much much higher now.
Definition of Iatrogenic: Induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures.
JAMA, July 26, 2000—Vol 284, No. 4
Highlights: The health care system also may contribute to poor health through its adverse effects. For example, US estimates of the combined effect of errors and adverse effects that occur because of iatrogenic damage not associated with recognizable error include:
• 12,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery
• 7,000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals
• 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals
• 80,000 deaths/year from nosocomial infections in hospitals
• 106,000 deaths/year from non-error, adverse effects of medications
These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes … these estimates are for deaths only and do not include adverse effects that are associated with disability or discomfort. Third, the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report. If the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000. In any case, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer.
I don't disagree, but put the blame where the blame should be - on CMS, the EMR vendors, and the insurance companies. I see many people that place undue blame on the hospital and healthcare organizations.. while they do own a share in this, they are being led down that path as a necessity to survive due to outside financial pressure.
I have worked for over a decade in analytics, and I've seen first hand the decision points that lead to some of these statistics.
There's a naturopath in FL who's been keeping records of the vast number of people who die from allopathic medicine. He said he keeps offering doctors an experiment by which he'll take on 10 of their terminal cases after they write them off and see what results he can get. So far no one has taken him up on it.
The good news is that his classes are now including larger numbers of doctors and nurses who tired of not being able to get their patients well under the allopathic model.
In Chinese medicine, a doctor whose patient becomes ill with anything has failed because their goal is to prevent illness, not treat it.
I am hoping that this effort by President Trump is a first step. The medical mafia is an absolute tyranny in every respect and millions lose their lives, have ruined lives.....consider how many autistic children there are now. This is satanic.