This fully referenced report shows the number of people having
in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million
per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for
viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary
medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per
year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization
annually is 8.9 million per year.

The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of
deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per
year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading
cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths
attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of
deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)

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