SELLER abuse - reported to GW

The third leading cause of death in U.S. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated medical periodical in the world. The author is Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and she desribes how the US health care system may contribute to poor health. 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 These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!! What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment. Another analysis concluded that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients experience negative effects in outpatient settings,with: * 116 million extra physician visits * 77 million extra prescriptions * 17 million emergency department visits * 8 million hospitalizations * 3 million long-term admissions * 199,000 additional deaths * $77 billion in extra costs Most comments I make are to make people aware of alternative treatments because the medical cartel is not working I don,t fear cancer because I know how to stop it.

I had the exact same experience as rivkadr with my Boris. I know what started it - I was trying to transition him to a better quality wet food from the meat flavored cereal he'd been eating his whole life. He turned up his nose but I figured when he got hungry enough he'd eat. Wrong answer. I did not realize how much weight he'd lost until I found him limp and almost unresponsive on my closet floor. I was shocked when I picked him up, he was a bag of bones. I missed this mostly because he never was a cuddly cat, very aloof, and I just never handled him much. He was so jaundiced it looked like someone had colored the skin around the inside of his ears with a yellow highlighter. We got a feeding tube inserted into his neck and I had to syringe feed him pureed food and meds 4-5 times a day, at first he would projectile vomit the few cc's I could get into him right back up. Not fun. I also had to give him sub-Q fluids twice a day. He was so weak the first few weeks he couldn't stand and needless to say needed a lot of bathing. I remember crying my head off the first time I saw him eat again on his own. He is once again fat and happy, eating his meat flavored cereal - and has turned into a real lover boy. He's curled up next to me as I write this. Fatty liver is really hard and expensive to get through but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

I have an awesome 7 yr old cat that I found in a bush 3 houses down from our house. He was 7-10 days old, and we spent a lot of time, money and patience to raise this cute baby boy that was abonded. His mother was a farrell cat that the whole hood kinda took care of. (The vet said he wouldn't survive.... but our first born son thrived!) He grew to be 17.5 lbs. One day Tanner strutted into the house and he was different. I couldn't peg it but he was just 'off'. The very next day my daughter, the nurse, noticed he was tinged with this yellow hue. I took him almost immediately to an Emergency Vet Clinic who charges nearly $200 just to walk in the door. Or, due to Covid, wait 4 Hrs. IN YOUR CAR! To make a long story longer... Tanner had NEVER been ill in his short time here on earth, even as a baby. This vet took him for 3 days! poking and prodding and drugging him to the sum of $2055.00! Sending him home with a medication that practically choked him getting it down and bit my finger off! Now, I'm a recent widow with very little money, but being my precious boy was suffering, I was coeursed into taking out a loan immediately for them to treat and what I thought save him. I never, ever heard of Jaundice in an animal only people. I jumped into a decision that led me falsely into the wrong decision!! Tanner suffered terribly after coming home and being more traumatized by his original vet. Only to charge me approx. another $1000. He learned to not trust me anymore. Realizing we were both going to be homeless, I had to make a decision that was very very difficult! Yes, he was euthanized! Which would have saved us both a lot of trauma and cost and the vets. time to treat other pets that needed quick care. This story was posted to help ANY other animals lovers that may not be knowledgable in diseases, and tend to be convinced there is hope when really there is not. Always get a 2nd opinion. And think twice before you jump into something you know nothing about. At the end of all this, no one figured out how he caught it this deadly 'bug'! I thought maybe it was genetics. Although he was very healthy and had all his vaccines required to keep him safer as he grew, his mother obviously did not. But after studying this common pathogen I realized we both were taken by the vets. My poor baby suffered and I was now in debt that took 2 years took recover. Maybe that's why they came up with euthanizing animals long ago?