Don't go into the hospital alone...ever....

“The equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to likely preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the U.S.,” Collier said."

"An average of 195,000 Americans died annually in 2000, 2001 and 2002 because of potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors,"

Read more about it. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/hospital_errors.html

I'd like that jerk from quack watch to respond to the above article.

A comparison: Each year, an estimated 205,000 new cases of Breast Cancer, with an estimated number of deaths at 40,000. So, hospital errors cause and average of 155, 000 MORE deaths that breast cancer.

No wonder the AMA has taken to shining up their image. Have you seen their new ads?