[mmasters]

In 1973 doctors in Isreal staged a month-long strike and during that month, mortality fell by 50 percent. A couple of years later, a two- month work stoppage by doctors in the Columbian capital of Bogota led to a 35% decline in deaths. And during a "work slowdown" by doctors in Los Angeles protesting a against the sharp increase in premiums for liability insurance, the number of deaths fell by 18 percent.

Once doctors were back at work full time, mortality immediately jumped back to te previous level. Every year, 1.2 million Britons are hospitalized as a result of improper medical care. In the United States -- where 40,000 people are shot to death each year -- the chance of getting "killed" by a doctor is three times greater than being killed by a gun. And every year significantly more people die from an infection sustained while in the hospital than as a result of traffic accidents.

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/ ... 18998.aspx

[dukey]

not surprised at all by that
honestly tho, it's no wonder people are sick with the drugs doctors have people on .. or the vaccines

[PenultimateManStanding]

This is truly the most wonderful news I've heard in a long time. They don't give medical coverage to sub teachers. This reminds me of one of those Star Trek movies where Bones said, "Jim, don't leave me in the hands of 20'th Century medicine!"

[dukey]

in case you haven't seen this video before
here it is again

[flash width=425 height=350]http://www.youtube.com/v/uXpsfgk-fyE[/flash]

Waits for spallpox to come in with some study funded by the drug companies to debunk us all.

[I_Like_Plants]

I think those studies are too short-term.

However, there are studies over a few years showing that the French and Brits got healthier during WWII food rationing.

[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)

[smallpoxgirl]

No doubt medical complications and medical errors are a large cause of death in the US. Per usual Dukey, your numbers are pretty shady. Absolutely adverse drug reactions deserve to be blamed on the medical system, but bed sores? Malnutrition? Get real.

I think the real numbers put medicine as the number 5 cause of death in the US and medical errors as number 7. That's shocking enough without making stuff up.

[manu]

http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm

Actually this report is from JAMA. So called Dr.s are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Read it and weep, if you are still alive.

[fluffy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'I')n 1973 doctors in Isreal staged a month-long strike and during that month, mortality fell by 50 percent. A couple of years later, a two- month work stoppage by doctors in the Columbian capital of Bogota led to a 35% decline in deaths. And during a "work slowdown" by doctors in Los Angeles protesting a against the sharp increase in premiums for liability insurance, the number of deaths fell by 18 percent.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ferrelgiraffe', 'W')hen the grid goes down, there won't be any hospitals or doctors, we'll see how the death rate goes then.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ferrelgiraffe', 'W')hen the grid goes down, there won't be any hospitals or doctors, we'll see how the death rate goes then.

[Tyler_JC]

Sure, and if I shut down all of the electrical plants, the rate of electrocution would drop to 0.

When the doctors went back to work, people who were waiting for surgery finally got operated on. Some of them died.

But if you hadn't done the surgeries, surely most of the patients would have died.

Save 100 by killing one.

[Laughs_Last]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'I')n 1973 doctors in Isreal staged a month-long strike and during that month, mortality fell by 50 percent.

[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m suprised that none of the haters have pointed out that Jew-doctors intentionally kill half of their patients in order to maintain silence.