Reality Check:  # of deaths (2006)
• 1. cardiac disease 629,191
• 2. cancer 560.102
• 3. adverse drug reactions 305,000
• 4. stroke 137,265   
• 5. accidents 124,614
• 6. medical errors   98,000
• 7. Alzheimer’s disease   73,177
• 8. diabetes mellitus   72,507
• 9. flu & pneumonia   56,247
•10. septicemia   44,791
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If one integrates the aforementioned statistics within the previous governmental listing of America’s top causes of death, the results are striking:


Ř  adverse drug reactions become the third leading killer in the U.S.A.
Ř  medical errors become the sixth leading killer in the U.S.A.