So said Dr Glenn D Braunstein, M.D., today, in Huffington Post while lamenting the fact that every year, one in 20 people are infected by staff, and 98,000 Americans die, because the medical profession still don't wash their hands. Dr Braunstein is unusual, in that he's speaking out. (Either that, or ... he's naive.) He rolled out the usual stories of Semmelweis, and also explains why official statistics are a gross under-estimate. Then of course, there is the thorny figure he doesn't discuss for deaths from preventable medical error (sorry "system's error - and that 2008 figure is out of date) and another death roll call from prescription drugs which beats that from heroin and cocaine combined. Add these three figures together - the annual death figure courtesy of the medical profession, explodes way beyond 300,000 deaths per year, just for USA alone. What is the total world wide?
Just remember that these are the same people who call parents who don't vaccinate their kids, "scientific terrorists" and are trying to take away the rights of parents to say no to vaccines on the basis that unvaccinated children are the biggest threat to mankind on the face of the earth.
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Hilary's Desk
A costly lethal plague that we must wash our hands of
TB "A vaccine blueprint"
This week's "The Science" contains an opinion piece on future vaccines for TB which deserves a historic comment. The title of the article "Opinion: A TB vaccine blueprint" isn't likely to make headlines in the lay media for pretty obvious but unstated reasons. They relate to the fact that most parents today, are under the "illusion" that the great white plague was vanquished by the old BCG vaccine used since 1950 in many countries.
In fact, the BCG has done nothing of the sort. One of the most notable" features" of the BCG vaccine, other than the fact that it's pretty much a useless vaccine, is the fact that the USA has never used the vaccine.
How many of you knew that?
Here's another fact. TB declined in USA at the same rate as it declined in the countries which used BCG.
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Archie Kalokerinos - This is your Life.
Dr Archie Kalokerinos died on 1st March, 2012, at the age of 85.
How many people even realise that so many people thoughts so well of him, that he appeared on Television's "This is Your Life"?
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