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Death by Medicine
Gary Null, PhD with Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Carolyn Dean, MD, ND
Summary
The number of people who die each day because of medical errors—physician mistakes, hospital-related illness, and reactions to FDA-approved medications—is the equivalent of six jumbo jets falling out of the sky. More Americans are dying each year at the hands of medicine than all American casualties in WWI and the Civil War combined.
The US national healthcare debate ignores these health statistics, and will not foster the real change necessary to promote safe and natural medical alternatives to toxic prescription drugs and dangerous surgeries. Health insurance costs will continue to rise as long as healthcare reform is manipulated by pharmaceutical companies and other special interests.
The medical environment has become a labyrinth of interlocking corporate, hospital, and governmental boards of directors, infiltrated by the drug companies. Pharmaceutical corporations are paying our legislators, television and radio stations, schools, and news outlets to keep this information from you.
Drug company representatives write about new medicines in glowing articles, which are then signed by physicians who are paid handsomely for their cooperation, though they may not even know the adverse side effects of the drugs they promote. The most toxic substances are often approved first, while milder and more natural alternatives are ignored for financial reasons. And adverse interactions between prescription drugs are largely untested while more Americans take multiple drug combinations, often for medical conditions related to simple vitamin and nutrient deficiencies.
In the United States, 30 million pounds of antibiotics are used each year. In hospitals today, the overprescription of antibiotics has encouraged the emergence of superbugs – MRSA staph infections, Clostridium difficile and others. The CDC reported 94,360 serious MRSA infections in 2005. Deaths from C. difficile alone increased over 300% from 1999 to 2004.
It’s Death by Medicine.
“[Presents] compelling evidence that today’s health care system might even cause more harm than good. This fully referenced book reveals high numbers of people who suffer in-hospital adverse reactions to prescribed drugs; are prescribed unnecessary and/or inappropriate antibiotics; receive unnecessary medical and surgical procedures; and are exposed to unnecessary hospitalization. . . . This data makes it evident that the American medical system is one of the leading causes of death and injury in the US.”
—William Faloon, Life Extension Foundation
“The author makes effective use of headline-grabbing statistics and shocking anecdotal evidence from a wide range of medical sources, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and numerous researchers of note. . . . This book is presented as an exposé . . . to reveal cracks in the medical institutions that are killing people. The book is meant to outrage, warn, and light a fire under a citizenry the author hopes will demand reform.”
—Karl Kunkel, ForeWord Reviews
“Anyone with a horse in the health care race is sure to be intrigued and provoked.”
—Publishers Weekly, January 2010
About the Authors
For over thirty years, Gary M. Null, PhD, has been one of the foremost advocates of alternative medicine and natural healing. Dr. Null in award-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author, having written over 70 books on nutrition and health. His syndicated radio program, “Natural Living with Gary Null,” is the longest-running health show in America.
A research scientist at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Martin Feldman, MD, has authored seventy-five peer-reviewed research articles on neurophysiology, clinical neurology, and neurochemistry. Debora Rasio, MD, is a researcher, contributing author, and editor of numerous health-related books and investigative reports, including “Iatrogenic Disease: The Downside of Modern Medicine.” And Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, is the medical director of the Nutritional Magnesium Association and the author or coauthor of eighteen books, including The Magnesium Miracle and Death by Modern Medicine.