03-28-2012, 02:25 AM
Dennis S wrote:
600? Don't doctors and hospitals cause over 100,000 deaths a year? (And I'm pretty sure those are probably under-reported.)
The statistic is from England, which has a population less than 1/6th that of the U.S.
Yes, medical malpractice is proximate cause of around 100,000 untimely deaths each year in the United States.
And about a quarter million people in the U.S. are injured due to hospital negligence... A little less than 1% of the number of patients treated each year.
Extrapolate those figures to England if you want. It's a simple math game...
And extrapolate the other figure to the U.S. and you still get 50% of all chiropractic patients being injured by their course of treatment.