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"More alarming is the fact that psychiatrists, themselves, may not be sufficiently aware of the harm done by the drugs due to the fact there is a lack of reports of these medication errors. Evidence of this is the lack of reports in the psychiatric literature in regards to medication errors and the harm done. Only one issue,191 written in 1984, reported that 75% of the randomly selected patients experienced adverse drug reactions. What a shockingly high percentage! And only in one report? 190 http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/joumals/mdd/v07/i03/pdf/304rules." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "There is absence of data on medication errors and yet the psychiatrist continues to prescribe. The sorts of errors that can happen are numerous. A wrong drug may be prescribed. It may interact with other drugs the patient is already taking and create a bad reaction. Or it could be a wrong dosage. With the elderly patient this is particularly dangerous since they are already on different medications for various ailments and their age alone makes it more difficult to differentiate adverse drug reactions from changes in the patient's signs and symptoms." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Evidence of this is the lack of reports in the psychiatric literature in regards to medication errors and the harm done. Only one issue,191 written in 1984, reported that 75% of the randomly selected patients experienced adverse drug reactions. What a shockingly high percentage! And only in one report? 190 http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/joumals/mdd/v07/i03/pdf/304rules.pdf 191 Schmid LG, et al: Adverse drug reactions: An epidemiological study at psychiatric hospitals, Acta Psychiatr Scand 70: pp." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"They excluded injuries caused by medication errors made by doctors and pharmacists. They also left out overdoses and cases where patients died after abusing the medications. In other words, they looked at people who were harmed by medicines that had been properly prescribed and taken exactly as directed. They also limited their study to hospitalized patients—that is, those who died from medications administered in the hospital and those who died after being hospitalized because a medicine prescribed in an outside clinic had made them sick." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Deaths from medication errors Spike Deaths from medication errors spike by 25% at the start of each month, according to a recent study. Presumed reason: Government checks go out at the beginning of the month. As a result, pharmacies have a surge in their workloads, increasing the risk of mistakes. Safety: Have your prescriptions filled when your pharmacy isn't busy. David P. Phillips, PhD, professor, department of sociology, San Diego Center for Patient Safety, University of California, San Diego." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Medication Errors A survey of a 1992 national pharmacy database found a total of 429,827 medication errors from 1,081 hospitals. medication errors occurred in 5.22% of patients admitted to these hospitals each year. The authors concluded that a minimum of 90,895 patients annually were harmed by medication errors in the country as a whole.37 A 2002 study shows that 20% of hospital medications for patients had dosage mistakes. Nearly 40% of these errors were considered potentially harmful to the patient. In a typical 300-patient hospital the number of errors per day were 40." - Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD., Death by Medicine (Get the book.)

"Grasso, Rothschild, Genest, and Bates, What Do We Know About medication errors in Inpatient Psychiatry, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 2003, p. 397 193 Idem. 194 Leape LL, et al: The nature of adverse events in hospitalized patients: Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II, N Engl. J Med 324: pp. 377 - 384, 1991 SUICIDE The most horrible side effect is of course suicide. Even among children! The Associated Press has stated, "2% to 3% of children taking the antidepressants Wellbutrin, Paxil, Lexapro, Effexor, Zoloft and Fluoxetine have increased thoughts of suicide." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Deaths from medication errors Spike Deaths from medication errors spike by 25% at the start of each month, according to a recent study. Presumed reason: Government checks go out at the beginning of the month. As a result, pharmacies have a surge in their workloads, increasing the risk of mistakes. Safety: Have your prescriptions filled when your pharmacy isn't busy. David P. Phillips, PhD, professor, department of sociology, San Diego Center for Patient Safety, University of California, San Diego." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Her statistics are equally astounding (ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR): • 12,000 — unnecessary surgery • 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals • 20,000 — other errors in hospitals • 80,000 — infections in hospitals • 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs A total of 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!! The pharmaceutical corporations form the foundation for this collateral damage, and are aided by government. As a juror, you must now consider the culpability of the medical community." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"In one study, researchers calculated that more than 100,000 hospitalized patients die each year from medication errors and more than 2 million others suffer serious side effects. These numbers are shocking because everyone assumes that rigorous controls would be in place in hospitals. Another 700,000 people are hospitalized each year because of adverse reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medications." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Still, we can't deny that medication errors occur as well. Several recent studies estimate that between three and five medication errors take place per one thousand orders.4 And the majority of these errors have the potential of a serious adverse drug event. Not only do we face the inherent risk of medications but also the additional risk of medication errors. Dr. Bates made bold statements about how common adverse drug reactions are in hospitalized adults." - Ray Strand, M.D., Death By Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation (Get the book.)

"Americans undergo unnecessary medical and surgical procedures. • the number one food item consumed is sugar, in the form of corn syrup. This has generated an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. This epidemic is not being treated at the causal level. Note: Since the fructose in corn syrup does neither stimulate insulin secretion nor reduce the hunger hormone ghrelin, you will continue to feel hungry while the body converts the fructose into fat. The resulting obesity increases the risk of diabetes and other diseases." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Several recent studies estimate that between three and five medication errors take place per one thousand orders.4 And the majority of these errors have the potential of a serious adverse drug event. Not only do we face the inherent risk of medications but also the additional risk of medication errors. Dr. Bates made bold statements about how common adverse drug reactions are in hospitalized adults." - Ray Strand, M.D., Death By Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation (Get the book.) "With hospital personnel's great tendency toward concealing mistakes and the reluctance to report complications, spontaneous reporting reveals only a small portion of adverse drug reactions or medication errors. When quality-review nurses began to look specifically for these problems (without relying simply on spontaneous reports), claimed Bates, the incidence of adverse drug reactions and medication errors increased fiftyfold. After reviewing all of their findings, Bates concluded that the overwhelming majority of these cases were preventable." - Ray Strand, M.D., Death By Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation (Get the book.)

"In the aftermath, however, it was the subject of rectifying hospital medication errors, and not listening to the patient in a new way, that got the most public attention. Lehman's case inspired a conference in Boston in January 1996 that attacked the drug safety problem from a novel perspective: it focused on preventing hospital medication errors. By this time I was attending any symposium that might even vaguely touch on the issues surrounding Diane's drug reaction—trolling for sources, ideas, perhaps even tidbits about her specific case." - Stephen Fried, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (Get the book.)

"Sociologist David Phillips of the University of California, San Diego, a morbidity expert, has just completed a study showing that the outpatient clinic is a perfect setting for iatrogenic episodes caused by medication errors, in both the type of prescriptions and their dosage. In the decade from 1983 to 1993, for instance, he and his team found that outpatient hospital visits for medical care increased by seventy-five percent. With this new traffic has come a large increase in medication errors and deaths." - Martin L. Cross, The Medical Racket (Get the book.)

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