How Doctors Responded to Being Named a Leading Killer Sept 2017
Dr. Greger
- “In my video Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure (2015), I profiled a paper that added up all the deaths caused by medical care in this country, including the hundred thousand deaths from medication side effects, all the deaths caused by errors, and so on. The author of the paper concluded that the third leading cause of death in America is the American medical system.”
Statistic was first reported in 1978, then in JAMA in 2000 – virtual silence by Doctors to both reports
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-doctors-responded-to-being-named-a-leading-killer/
- “Some things have finally changed. Work hour limits were instituted for medical trainees. Interns and residents could no longer be worked more than 80 hours a week, at least on paper, and the shifts couldn’t be more than 30 hours long
- “When interns and residents are forced to pull all-nighters, they make
36% more serious medical errors,
five times more diagnostic errors, and have
twice as many “attentional failures.”” - “Performance is impaired as much as a blood alcohol level that would make it illegal to drive a car”
Vitamin D both prevents (not use the medical system at all) and treats many diseases
- Less likely to die if have enough vitamin D - Meta-analysis June 2014
- Death of women from cancer 24% less likely if 20 ng more vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2013
- Chance of dying increases by 25 percent in seniors if low vitamin D – Meta-analysis July 2013
- Death rate reduced 8 percent for 8 nanogram more vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2012
- Causes of Death - Vitamin D reduces 10 of the top 11 - July 2017
- ALL of the top 10 health problems of women are associated with low vitamin D