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Originally Posted by jaminhealth
Many people die worldwide of medical mistakes. I'm not holding Adelle responsible for what happened years ago in her life. I'm thankful that MANY of us have other sources to heal our bodies and not have to depend on toxic drugs. Everyone has stories and that is what it is. My sister died from mega drugs given her for years due to the MS she battled..oh if only she had sought out other MD types. I believe she was poisoned with the load of toxic drugs.
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That's the problem. She
should be held responsible for the damage she did.
Your sister died from MS. You may "believe" all you wish. That does not make your beliefs into facts. How old was your sister when she died? How long after she was first diagnosed did she die?
What happens when MS patients stop their medication?
https://nyulangone.org/press-release...eir-medication
"After discontinuing medication, 24 percent of patients experienced a clinician-reported relapse, 32 percent sustained three-month disability progression, and 10.6 percent of patients recorded both relapses and disability progression.
Researchers found 77 patients—or 42 percent—restarted medication after a median of 22 months. Restarting medication was associated with a 59 percent risk reduction of disability progression."
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Originally Posted by jaminhealth
Every day I hold the surgeon responsible for the almost disability I live with from a hip replacement 8 yrs ago that HE really botched.
Don't talk about who is holding whom responsible for whatever. This thread has gone everywhere.
What's the deal about "team"... everyone has their own teams for working to heal? good grief again. Good thing I can laugh so much of the comments off or I'd be breeding dis-ease, could be?
On this "team" comment, it is a sad commentary that ALL doctors won't work together to achieve the best healing for their patients..that's called Integrative Healing. My main MD is an Integrative MD...if I need a drug, she can write it...but otherwise alternative most of the way.
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You have provided no evidence that your orthopedist "botched" your hip surgery. You assume that because it was a Friday he was rushing to finish. You chose him because he had a good reputation. That suggests that he has more than adequate skills. There are patient factors involved in recovery, too. If others got good results and you did not, perhaps it was because you personally did not heal as well as the average person does after an operation.
Doctors will be happy to use any modality that has scientific evidence to support its use.
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Originally Posted by jaminhealth
Oh one has to be almost dead to do malpractice. Believe me I went there with the recent staph infection and the negligence of the MD's getting to the infection...2.5 months trying to walk with the infection flaming.
I support where I can and what I find really helps me. Finally after 10 yrs of A/D drugs for depression a great D.O. put me on thyroid support (Armour) and that horrid depression lifted. 10 yrs of negligent doctors.
I know negligence and I know good.
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Fro what you have said in other threads you initially injured your knee. You believe that an MRI done as soon as you saw the doctor would have shown the infection, despite being told that knee infections are not diagnosed with MRI. They are diagnosed by placing a needle in the joint and looking for bacteria in the fluid found there. At some point in your hospital stay that test was done. If you had an infection when the joint was aspirated, it would have been found. From little nuggets of information you have doled out in myriad posts about your knee, the infection developed while you were in the hospital and was not present on admission. The multiple attornies you consulted appear to agree.
Depression due to hypothyroidism does not "lift" after four days on thyroid hormone replacement. Placing someone on thyroid medication without laboratory evidence of thyroid disease is poor medical practice.
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Originally Posted by newtovenice
Why won't the FDA investigate the 100,000+ deaths caused each year (probably more now, that study is 20 years old) by medications that are properly prescribed and properly taken by patients?
Published, peer-reviewed article in JAMA -- that's the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of the top 3 in the WORLD -- by Barbara Starfield, in 1999. When asked if anyone from the FDA had contacted her, concerned about all these needless deaths of people dying who correctly followed doctor's advice she said:
"No."
PS. Any headway on that report that lists all the deaths caused by laetrile? No? Why was it banned then? If it killed NO ONE?
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Let's look at the article, shall we?
https://www.jhsph.edu/research/cente..._PDFs/A154.pdf
"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:
First, note that the numbers include events that are not due to mistakes. That is a horrible way to look at them. It does not tell us how many of the deaths were preventable.
• 12000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery
• 7000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals
• 20000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals
• 80000 deaths/year from nosocomial infections in hospitals
• 106000 deaths/year from nonerror, adverse effects of medications"
1. What is the definition of "unnecessary surgery"? Only the patient and the doctor can decide whether surgery is indicated for that particular patient. Given two people with identical circumstances, one might opt for surgery and one might choose non-surgical treatment. Surgery is never
necessary or
unnecessary, it is
indicated or
not indicated, though some indications might be stronger than others.
Take a woman who decides to have a surgical sterilization procedure and has a fatal pulmonary embolus afterward. Does that mean she died from "unnecessary" surgery? After all, she could have chosen some other method of contraception.
2. What kinds of medication errors? Wrong drug? Wrong dose? Missed dose? Dose given at the wrong time? Did the error really cause the death? Did it happen to a patient who was terminal anyway?
Getting a dose of an antibiotic fifteen minutes later than it was ordered is not going to cause someone to die from an infection, but it is an error.
3. What are those 20000 deaths from "other errors"? Missed diagnosis? Wrong treatment? Slips and falls? How many were preventable?
4. If deaths are from "nonerror, adverse effects of medications" how can they be prevented? The drugs that can have the most dangerous risks are used for serious indications in very sick people who may very well die without the drug.
As I told you before, no one knows how many people the laetrile quacks have killed. No one is counting them. The quacks certainly do not want to tell us how many they have bumped off. The case reports of deaths were numerous enough to alert the FDA, which triggered the same response that case reports of deaths related to prescription drugs would produce.
It's ironic that you are talking about deaths "from nonerror, adverse effects of medications" while you refuse to believe that laetrile can kill.
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Originally Posted by newtovenice
Right. Doctors can kill people with no recourse through their direct actions (as in surgery) or prescriptions (taken by patient as directed). They are legally protected. I fully understand what that means. Absolutely. They are allowed to kill people. I get it.
Do you?
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Dang. If that is true why do they spend so much money on medical liability insurance?
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