From Medical Mistakes and Corruption
In the USA alone it has been recently estimated that some 210,000 patients died from medical mistakes in a year, making this the third leading cause of death while heart disease is the first and cancer second. Can the above figure be used to expose the corruption in medicine? The reason why it has taken so long to realise that something is not right and why so many still don't see that anything is going on can be explained like this: On the whole, people: healthcare workers or patients or the public at large, can regard many circumstances in medicine as isolated cause and effect relationships. In other words, people generally fail to make the connections between the different cause and effect relationships. It is necessary to make the connections so that we can step back and see the 'big picture' of what's really going on and why certain things occur. This can be likened to the analogy of looking at separated pieces of jigsaw puzzle and not having the realisation th...