Actually, if you read the links, many of these preventable deaths are from infection that wasn't treated properly, from bedsores, from blood clots
after operations that weren't recognized and treated. They're for in-hospital care.
It's not for prescription medicine. (this is from the links you gave, RealTruth. I read the full text of the articles, not what the website said
was in them.). Here's another link to an article on the same thing that goes into more details:
www.medicalnewstoday.com...
Here's some more things they didn't point out:
1/3 of those deaths are in Medicare patients, who often don't get to the hospital until things are seriously wrong (can't afford health care and
don't have a regula doctor.) This is stated in the article but isn't mentioned on the website. Some of these were Alzheimers patients.
Deaths for cancer with conventional treatments are down.
www.cancer.org...
Survival rates are much higher now... 20 years ago, a diagnosis of breast cancer for a woman almost always ended in death. I have friends who have
had it within the past 10 years who are still alive thanks to treatment, and I know others have this same sort of experience.
If you go back to a time before drugs and radiation therapies, you find cancer was almost always fatal. The had all sorts of other therapies (many
that are promoted today)... and a very low survival rate.