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US life expectancy falls for third year in a row (2015-2017)
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2019 Mar 11, 7:41pm 2,048 views 2 comments
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Ceffer
2019 Mar 11, 8:36pm
Ceffer
2019 Mar 11, 8:36pm
If we can increase the production of oxycontin, we might be able to get it back down to where it was in the Middle Ages.
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curious2
2019 Mar 11, 8:46pm
curious2
2019 Mar 11, 8:46pm
Ceffer says
Even apart from that, hospitals are making the most of their infinite subsidies, injuring and killing people through inertia including nosocomial infections and medical errors (3rd leading cause of death in the USA), even saline IVs:
New research calls into question what’s in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. Using a different intravenous fluid instead of the usual saline greatly reduced the risk of death or kidney damage, two large studies found.
The difference could mean 50,000 to 70,000 fewer deaths and 100,000 fewer cases of kidney failure each year in the United States, researchers estimate. Some doctors are hoping the results will persuade more hospitals to switch.
‘‘We’ve been sounding the alarm for 20 years,’’ said Dr. John Kellum, a specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. ‘‘It’s purely inertia’’ that prevents a change, he said."
These people die very expensively, in the hospital, big money to be made!!!
As noted in the OP, 7 of the top 10 causes of death have increased. Opioids are only one factor, with subsidized fentanyl displacing heroin as the most commonly lethal opiate/opioid.
If we can increase the production of oxycontin, we might be able to get it back down to where it was in the Middle Ages.
Even apart from that, hospitals are making the most of their infinite subsidies, injuring and killing people through inertia including nosocomial infections and medical errors (3rd leading cause of death in the USA), even saline IVs:
New research calls into question what’s in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. Using a different intravenous fluid instead of the usual saline greatly reduced the risk of death or kidney damage, two large studies found.
The difference could mean 50,000 to 70,000 fewer deaths and 100,000 fewer cases of kidney failure each year in the United States, researchers estimate. Some doctors are hoping the results will persuade more hospitals to switch.
‘‘We’ve been sounding the alarm for 20 years,’’ said Dr. John Kellum, a specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. ‘‘It’s purely inertia’’ that prevents a change, he said."
These people die very expensively, in the hospital, big money to be made!!!
As noted in the OP, 7 of the top 10 causes of death have increased. Opioids are only one factor, with subsidized fentanyl displacing heroin as the most commonly lethal opiate/opioid.
A continued increase in deaths by overdose in 2017 was the biggest factor driving rates upward, but seven of the top 10 causes of mortality saw a statistically significant increase...."
PatNet readers may recall prior threads from prior years. Ever since enactment of Obamneycare diverted resources out of research and into lemon socialism, empowering the entrenched industry players, we have seen more of the same subsidies for things that don't work, and tragically slower progress towards things that might work someday.
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