Adefinitive review and close reading of medical peer-reviewjournals andgovernmen

Adefinitive review and close reading of medical peer-reviewjournals andgovernment health statistics shows that American medicinefrequently causesmore harm than good. The number of people having in-hospitaladverse drugreactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is2.2million.1 Dr.Richard Besser of the CDC in 1995 saidthe number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viralinfectionswas 20 million. Dr. Besser in 2003 now refers to tens of millionsofunnecessary antibiotics.2 2a the number of unnecessary medical andsurgicalprocedures performed annually is 7.5 million