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How likely am I to die accidentally from because of physician error?

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How likely am I to die accidentally from because of physician error?

Michael Largo (Author, "Final Exits") gives expert video advice on: What is the safest day of the week to have surgery?; What are the chances my prescription drugs might kill me?; What are the risks in taking diet pills? and more...

Nowadays, going to the doctor can be as deadly as not going to the doctor. Over 90,000 people die a year under supervised medical care. There's this new term that is appearing on death certificates called iatrogenics. Iatrogenics sounds like some kind of strange disease, but actually, over 250,000 death certificates last year had iatrogenics as a cause, which means "by other means." They're not naming their precise cause of death. This is a way to avoid the real things that are killing people when they go into either hospitals or under medical care.

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