Surgical errors too profitable to stop!

Surgical errors too profitable to stop!


(NaturalNews) When I wrote Death by Modern Medicine I was
appalled at the level of abuse in the hospital industry leading to
783,936 deaths annually due to medical iatrogenesis. An April 17, 2013
Harvard School of Public Health study published in JAMA adds an even
more macabre level of incredulity.

Hospitals actually make money
when a patient develops complications during and after surgery. The
"bean counters" know this is the case as Dr. Atul Gawande and his team
found out in their study of a hospital system in southern U.S.

It's
called a "contribution margin" gouged from unfortunate victims'
insurance that rewards hospitals and doctors for making mistakes. This
wasn't a study of just one hospital gone bad. It followed 12 hospitals
making an average "bonus" of $30,500 from insurance when a patient had
preventable surgical complications. Since the medical industry has
become "all about the money" medical errors and mistakes are becoming
the new "cash cow" in a morally and financially bankrupt system.

Every
ethical and credible surgeon is now turning over in their graves as the
patient body count rises. Every living surgeon should be fighting this
demonic trend. Do none of them remember the line in the Hippocratic Oath
that says "First Do No Harm?"

Instead of assuring themselves and
their patients that they will "neither give a deadly drug to anybody if
asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect." They have
taken a more sinister part of the oath to heart. "To hold him who has
taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in
partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share
of mine."

Notice the part about sharing money with his teachers.
That's where the Hippocratic Oath becomes hypocritical and fatal for
patients and medicine becomes all about the money.

When I read the Hippocratic Oath in medical
school I refused to go to my medical school graduation and say the oath
that would make me beholding to the monetary system of medicine. I also
was repelled by the emphasis on medicine being pass on solely and
soullessly to what was a closed camp from the beginning. "...To my
brothers in male lineage... to my sons and to the sons of him who has
instructed me... but to no one else."

When the Dean of Medicine
forced me to come to his office and say the oath before I could receive
my degree, I stood with my fingers crossed behind my back in a small
gesture of defiance that I held within my soul which later blossomed in
my writing Death by Modern Medicine.

In the 2005 edition I tabulated that 783,936 people die every year before their time due to hospital drug reactions, medical errors,
bedsores, infection, malnutrition, outpatient drug reactions,
unnecessary procedures, surgical complications and lives lost due to
lack of efficient and effective care. The annual cost of iatrogenesis at
that time was $282 billion.

Three years later in my second edition called Death by Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions,
I updated the statistics and found MORE, not less, people dying:
895,936. But the medical industry had not been idle. Their efforts at
containment of this iatrogenic tragedy was to try to contain costs! And
they succeeded. They kept the costs at $282.85 billion but continued to
let the death rate soar.

Now it seems we have reached a new era
in medical iatrogenesis where medical errors are rewarded for NOT
implementing strategies and techniques that are known to reduce
surgery-related complications.

What's the answer?

Take charge of our own health and your own body. Stay healthy and avoid doctors and hospitals
as much as possible. Follow commonsense advice about eating well,
exercising, getting a good night's rest and maintaining a positive
attitude in the face of adversity. Many people are turning their lives
around when they begin by taking these simple steps.

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