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Do medical errors really kill a quarter of a million people a year in the US?

oracknows | May 15, 2016

It is an unquestioned belief among believers in alternative medicine and even just among many people who do not trust conventional medicine that conventional medicine kills. Not only does exaggerating the number of people who die due to medical complications or errors fit in with the world view of people like Mike Adams and Joe Mercola, but it's good for business. After all, if conventional medicine is as dangerous as claimed, then alternative medicine starts looking better in comparison. In contrast, real physicians and real medical scientists are very much interested in making medicine…

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