The mainstream media does tell the truth!... 20 years later...

Chris Kresser in 2008 wrote 'Medical Care Is 3rd Leading Cause of Death in U.S.' and nearly a decade later CNBC reports 'The third-leading cause of death in US most doctors don't want you to know about' in 2018.

Kresser crunches the numbers together to show that "the deaths due to iatrogenic [which means relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment] causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000" which means medical care "is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer."

The research is based on a study done in 2000 by Barbara Starfield, MD and was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Interesting now, only after multiple studies and overwhelming available information, the corporate media decides to report this data. Probably to save face.

And still the truth is there are more studies on this issue from that year and earlier that show similar results. So in reality, it's taken the mainstream media almost 20 years to start mentioning these tragic trends. Perhaps because people are becoming more aware to the corruption in medicine and in the media that they're now trying to do some damage control and salvage some of their reputation in this regard.

The CNBC article references the recent study by John Hopkins which states:

Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year.

“Incidence rates for deaths directly attributable to medical care gone awry haven’t been recognized in any standardized method for collecting national statistics,” says Martin Makary, M.D., M.P.H., professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an authority on health reform. “The medical coding system was designed to maximize billing for physician services, not to collect national health statistics, as it is currently being used.”

A closer look...

The Journal of Patient Safety published a study 'A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care' suggests the number of deaths due to medical error to be upwards of 400,000 deaths per year:

Using a weighted average of the 4 studies, a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year was associated with preventable harm in hospitals. Given limitations in the search capability of the Global Trigger Tool and the incompleteness of medical records on which the Tool depends, the true number of premature deaths associated with preventable harm to patients was estimated at more than 400,000 per year. Serious harm seems to be 10- to 20-fold more common than lethal harm.

Why is there such a discrepancy in the numbers and why it is more likely worse than reported ...

The BMJ's study published in 2016 reports these summary points: "Death certificates in the US, used to compile national statistics, have no facility for acknowledging medical error"... "If medical error was a disease, it would rank as the third leading cause of death in the US... "The system for measuring national vital statistics should be revised to facilitate better understanding of deaths due to medical care"...

Most would probably assume that 'medical error' could or might be included on death certificates or in rankings of cause of death... Yet death certificates do not require to be noted as and are rarely, if ever, classified as medical errors, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rely on to post statistics for deaths nationwide. The John Hopkins team also acknowledges this issue stating "the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate."

I want to clarify that I think that conventional medicine is fantastic in acute cases and emergencies. Still, there is an obvious, destructive blind trust given to 'medicine' and 'media' that is eating away at our health, the consequences of which we're generally unaware of...

Second year in a row life expectancy in the U.S has decreased... But the media is more concerned about your guns!

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Sources

https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx

https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-primary-care-policy-center/Publications_PDFs/A154.pdf

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139

https://chriskresser.com/medical-care-is-the-3rd-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overdoses-are-leading-cause-of-death-americans-under-50/