Drug-Induced Iatrogenic Disorders – The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US and Britain

Duty to Warn

By Gary G. Kohls, MD

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Definition of an “iatrogenic” disorder: A disorder inadvertently induced by a health caregiver because of a surgical, medical, drug or vaccine treatment or by a diagnostic procedure.

In last week’s column I wrote that iatrogenic disorders (a doctor-, drug-, vaccine-, surgery- or other medical treatment-caused disorder) were the third leading cause of death in the US. That revelation may have ruffled the feathers of some readers, particularly if they were employed in the medical professions, so I am enlarging on that statement in this week’s column.

In 2000, a commentary article was written by Dr Barbara Stanfield, MD, MPH. It was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, July 26, 2000—Vol 284, No. 4).

The article was titled “Is US Health Really the Best in the World? It has been posted at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/192908?redirect=true.

In the article, Stanfield included the following statistics from her research about iatrogenic deaths. (Note: these numbers do not include out-patient iatrogenic deaths):

• 12,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery in hospitals
  • 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 in hospitals

Combining these five groups gives us a total of 225,000 in-patient deaths. The 225,000 number does not include out-patient deaths or disabilities. In any case, this number easily constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer (see the official list for 2015 below).

The CDC’s Mortality and Morbidity Report for 2000, said that cancer caused 710,701 US deaths in 2000 and heart disease caused 553,080. For comparison purposes, the CDC’s report said that heart disease caused 606,401 deaths in 2017 and cancer caused 594,707.

Below are the US death statistics for 2015 (apparently the last year that the CDC has published the complete list).

The DSM 5 will drug America to death

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Drugging America to death

The recent calls by knee-jerk politicians and other notables, to expand mental health screening for anything and everything, is anchored in the new DSM 5 about to be launched against the public. And this is an attack! The insane ramblings of selected psychiatrists are codified into one volume of the most insidiously inane and fictional collection of non-existent mental illnesses that will be used to target and label individuals.  The benefits of labeling as mentally ill, in reference to future lawful privileges, activities and rights is tied directly to this new and improved collection of fake mental disorders.

Think about this for a minute………….

When you hear Dr. Phil say to the parents of a child who is acting out that they must understand that the child has a bio-chemical imbalance…..Dr. Phil is blowing smoke.  He and others like him can produce not one blood test of any kind, not one scientific study of any kind, not one x-ray, CT Scan, MRI, or any other physical test that confirms the existence of a bio-chemical imbalance.  It is an assumption, and one without any body of evidence to support the conclusion.

According to: www.antidepressantsfacts.com

“So, are (SSRI) antidepressants an answer? Do they correct a particular chemical imbalance somewhere in your brain? No, they don’t. Antidepressant-drugs are not correcting any “bio-chemical imbalance” but putatively interact with serotonergic neurons, whereupon serotonin levels raise in your complete body, not solely the brain, increasing the risk of the potentially fatal toxic hyperserotonergic state of the Serotonin Syndrome.”