Dr. Lucian L. Leape opened medicines Pandoras box in his 1994 JAMA paper, "Error in Medicine."16 He began the paper by reminiscing about Florence Nightingales maxim--"first do no harm." But he found evidence of the opposite happening in medicine. He found that Schimmel reported in 1964 that 20 percent of hospital patients suffered iatrogenic injury, with a 20 percent fatality rate. Steel in 1981 reported that 36 percent of hospitalized patients experienced iatrogenesis with a 25 percent fatality rate and adverse drug reactions were involved in 50 percent of the injuries. Bedell in 1991 reported that 64 percent of acute heart attacks in one hospital were preventable and were mostly due to adverse drug reactions.

As few as 5 percent and only up to 20 percent of iatrogenic acts are ever reported.16,24,25,33,34 This implies that if medical errors were completely and accurately reported, we would have a much higher annual iatrogenic death rate than 783,936. Dr. Leape, in 1994, said his figure of 180,000 medical mistakes annually was equivalent to three jumbo-jet crashes every two days.16 Our report shows that six jumbo jets are falling out of the sky each and every day.

The US health care system is currently run by corporations. Because of that at least 1 million Americans will die due to medical errors this year

2.1 percent chance of a serious adverse drug reaction (186,000)


5 percent to 6 percent chance of acquiring a nosocomial [hospital] infection (489,500) 9
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4 percent to 36 percent chance of having an iatrogenic injury in hospital (medical error and adverse drug reactions) (1.78 million)

17 percent chance of a procedure error (1.3 million)

You're doing a great job making sure people don't understand what Socialism is!
Keep deluding the masses!
Your Millionaire friend!
CapitalistOverlord!

These are great! Nice and simple for the Socialists to understand.

Viral marketing at its best. Lets keep the Corporations in charge of health care so we can keep profits the main factor that drives the policies that determine coverage. And lets keep competition out of the picture, after all, how will that help these Insurance companies rake in the profits? H. Edward Hanway is my hero!! Too bad his salary dropped so bad in 2008, only 12 million! Time to raise rates again!! Yah boy!!

Americans are so stupid they DONT wnat free health care haha

To all those below me posting negative comments.
1. You are idiotic if you think the answer to health care problems caused by the hand of government is a bigger government hand.
2. You are buying into the lies spoon fed to you by the media.
3. You want to preach sacrifice. Buy your own health care insurance. Don't expect more of my money to go to pay for you to visit the doctors office while listening to your $300 iPod and texting on your $400 cell phone.
4. Read HR3200.
5. I work on an ambulance @ $10/hr so those of you preaching profit in desires to protect patient's rights are sadly mistaken.
6. Medicare and Medicaid are government are "public options" and DENY many payments leaving the ambulance and hospital to foot the bill after all is said in done.
7. NO ONE in America is denied treatment @ the ER.
In conclusion, grow up and take responsibility for your own life. Don't expect government to do it for you.

ok anyone who doesn't see through the fact that you're a private insurance company with a lot to lose with government health care, and still believes you are disseminating these videos for anything but propaganda and profiteering reasons, deserves their fail. you should be ashamed of yourselves for propping up a garbage belief system and for hating freedom. you hate freedom.

Keep up the GREAT work - we need it! Very creative way to get the message out. Thanks!