In the age of rapid information, the American public still lags behind reality. Perhaps stuck in the social media world of quick soundbites and superficial stories framed by mainstream media news conglomerates. The deeper stories — the ones that have always been there just underneath the surface — continue to suffer in lonely obscurity. The movie Spotlight gave the viewer a taste of investigative journalism at the Boston Globe. Very rarely is the type of Spotlight-level investigative journalism allowed or encouraged in mainstream media’s current landscape. Exhaustive examples, direct whistleblowers and continual documents tell of a toothless US media with few directives left except to protect the monopolistic corporations paying to keep their lights on through ad revenue.
It was freelance journalistJon Rappoport who was ahead — by more than a decade — on a story that struck directly at the root and failure of mainstream medicine. A lone thinking voice in the aftermath of a lost American journalism — Rappoport’s work stood alone as an uncomfortable reminder to news agencies that lost their moral compass years ago. The mega-bombshell story revolved around the Starfield Study and it was Jon — and only Jon — who bothered to interview the report’s author Dr. Barbara Starfield shortly after her report went public in July of 2000.
According to Starfield, 119,000 American people per year died from mistreatment and errors in hospitals and 106,000 died from correctly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs.
It was uneventfully reported recently by mainstream media outlets that medical errors have been found to be the third leading cause of death in the US behind heart disease and cancer. The figures were quoted from research conducted by John Hopkins University’s Martin Makary M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Surgery and Health Policy & Management and echoed the Starfield Study’s findings more than a decade before. The tepid and heavily framed news coverage of John Hopkins conclusions omitted damning evidence and society rattling omissions. Another major medical smoking gun was alluded to by the open letter with none other than the US Center’s for Disease Control (CDC) in the shadows behind the trigger. John Hopkins open letter states:
“The current methodology used to generate the list has what we believe to be a serious limitation. As a result, the list has neglected to identify the third leading cause of death in the United States — medical error.” Moreover, the 251,454 estimate we derived from the literature is an underestimate because the studies conducted did not include outpatient deaths or deaths at home due to a medical error."
The raw numbers generated by the CDC have presently and historically been used to push legislation and force treatment upon US citizens by commonly citing the financial burden the major causes of mortality generate on society. Government and the medical industry have built a system of business and legislation around the false premise that US healthcare is an infallible savior. What happens when the main option for healthcare is also the third leading cause of death? How dismal are a patient’s odds if they enter the US healthcare system (3rd leading cause of death) with cancer (2nd leading cause) or heart disease (1st leading cause)? We have a real problem here.
So once again, the American public is seeing more smoke within an already blazing fire at the CDC. According to the open letter to the CDC from John Hopkins, the CDC has tabulated the national mortality statistics by assigning an International Classification of Disease (ICD) billing code to the cause of death. As a result, causes of death not associated with an ICD code — such as human error and system factors/inadequacies in medical care — are not captured.
John Hopkins has openly asked that the CDC allow clinicians to list medical error as the cause of death, and, in the interim, the CDC should list medical error as the third most common case of death in the US.
In timely fashion, the Hopkins open letter hints at recent whistleblower admissions of daily routine vaccine injury occurring at US hospitals. The report calls for the need for “prevention before and rescue after an adverse event.” In her whistleblower interviews, Michelle Rowton MSN, RNC-NIC, C-NPT, NNP-BC told of hospital staff that would regularly cover up routine adverse events and even joke about the common occurrence of such events in Neonatal Intensive Care Units as a result of vaccine injury. Echoing Rowton’s words, John Hopkins open letter states:
“Currently, deaths due to medical error result in only internal discussions in confidential forums such as a hospital’s internal root cause analysis committee or a department’s morbidity and mortality conference. These forums review only a fraction of detected adverse events and the lessons learned are rarely disseminated beyond the borders of a single department or institution.”
It was freelance journalistJon Rappoport who was ahead — by more than a decade — on a story that struck directly at the root and failure of mainstream medicine. A lone thinking voice in the aftermath of a lost American journalism — Rappoport’s work stood alone as an uncomfortable reminder to news agencies that lost their moral compass years ago. The mega-bombshell story revolved around the Starfield Study and it was Jon — and only Jon — who bothered to interview the report’s author Dr. Barbara Starfield shortly after her report went public in July of 2000.
According to Starfield, 119,000 American people per year died from mistreatment and errors in hospitals and 106,000 died from correctly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs.
It was uneventfully reported recently by mainstream media outlets that medical errors have been found to be the third leading cause of death in the US behind heart disease and cancer. The figures were quoted from research conducted by John Hopkins University’s Martin Makary M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Surgery and Health Policy & Management and echoed the Starfield Study’s findings more than a decade before. The tepid and heavily framed news coverage of John Hopkins conclusions omitted damning evidence and society rattling omissions. Another major medical smoking gun was alluded to by the open letter with none other than the US Center’s for Disease Control (CDC) in the shadows behind the trigger. John Hopkins open letter states:
“The current methodology used to generate the list has what we believe to be a serious limitation. As a result, the list has neglected to identify the third leading cause of death in the United States — medical error.” Moreover, the 251,454 estimate we derived from the literature is an underestimate because the studies conducted did not include outpatient deaths or deaths at home due to a medical error."
The raw numbers generated by the CDC have presently and historically been used to push legislation and force treatment upon US citizens by commonly citing the financial burden the major causes of mortality generate on society. Government and the medical industry have built a system of business and legislation around the false premise that US healthcare is an infallible savior. What happens when the main option for healthcare is also the third leading cause of death? How dismal are a patient’s odds if they enter the US healthcare system (3rd leading cause of death) with cancer (2nd leading cause) or heart disease (1st leading cause)? We have a real problem here.
So once again, the American public is seeing more smoke within an already blazing fire at the CDC. According to the open letter to the CDC from John Hopkins, the CDC has tabulated the national mortality statistics by assigning an International Classification of Disease (ICD) billing code to the cause of death. As a result, causes of death not associated with an ICD code — such as human error and system factors/inadequacies in medical care — are not captured.
John Hopkins has openly asked that the CDC allow clinicians to list medical error as the cause of death, and, in the interim, the CDC should list medical error as the third most common case of death in the US.
In timely fashion, the Hopkins open letter hints at recent whistleblower admissions of daily routine vaccine injury occurring at US hospitals. The report calls for the need for “prevention before and rescue after an adverse event.” In her whistleblower interviews, Michelle Rowton MSN, RNC-NIC, C-NPT, NNP-BC told of hospital staff that would regularly cover up routine adverse events and even joke about the common occurrence of such events in Neonatal Intensive Care Units as a result of vaccine injury. Echoing Rowton’s words, John Hopkins open letter states:
“Currently, deaths due to medical error result in only internal discussions in confidential forums such as a hospital’s internal root cause analysis committee or a department’s morbidity and mortality conference. These forums review only a fraction of detected adverse events and the lessons learned are rarely disseminated beyond the borders of a single department or institution.”
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