如果您還不知道，請讀下面的文章：誤診（誤治）是美國第三大死因，僅次於心臟病和癌。

這也可以作為探討中西醫的一個重要參考。至今人對人體的認識可能還非常有限，如果說完全了解是100%的話，可能中西醫都只有做到很小的一部分。（贊成某一方的可以根據自己的認識或感覺給出這個百分數）。可能比較某一方比另一方"好/先進“多少，根本沒有太大的意義。重要的是看實際效果。

每年死225,000人是什麼概念？大約是 每天死 225,000/365=616人。 一架波音737大約坐154人，就是說，年復一年，每天都有四架幾乎滿員的737出事故並全體罹難。無論誰大概都難以想象這樣的事情發生而公眾無動於衷。

The Third Leading Cause of Death is…Doctors?

That’s right…research is showing that doctors in America kill roughly 225,000 people every year. This makes doctors the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health provides some startling numbers:

12,000 people are killed through unnecessary surgery

7,000 are killed as a result of hospital medication errors

20,000 are killed as a result of other hospital errors

80,000 are killed by hospital-acquired infections

106,000 are killed by drugs prescribed to them

Significantly, these numbers do not include individuals who suffer non-lethal injuries or other negative effects of medical treatment.

As Americans, we also pay the highest costs in the world for our health care. At these prices, shouldn’t we expect the world’s best health care? But we are not getting it.

Of 13 countries in a recent comparison, the United States ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom) for 16 available health indicators. More specifically, the ranking of the US on several indicators was:

13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages

13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall

11th for post-neonatal mortality

13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)

11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males

The numbers are appalling, and need to be addressed immediately. If an American jumbo jet crashed every single day, killing every passenger on board day after day, year after year, the country would be up in arms. This issue should be no different. Medical professionals who injure or kill patients through negligence need to be held responsible for the harms they cause.