On January 31, 2000, an Alaska Airline commercial plane crashed off the coast of California. 88 persons are feared dead in the jetliner crash. Within hours of the crash, news stations across the planet where reporting on the tragedy. There is probably not a single person reading this article that has not already seen several reports of the crash on television, in print, and on the internet. So why are we telling you about it now?
In November of 1999, a report by the Institute of Medicine stated that Medical mistakes are a stunningly huge problem. The report quoted studies estimating that at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 hospitalized Americans die every year from medical errors.
Accidental death is a tragedy in any case, and as individuals we have a responsibility and obligation to prevent such tragedies from occurring on a repeated basis.
When we take a look at the numbers in the Alaska Airlines crash and compare them to the number of deaths yearly due to medical error as reported by the Institute of Medicine we find the following:
A jetliner tragedy such as that in the Alaska Airline crash would occur at least 1.3 times daily with as many as 3 jetliner crashes per day. That is 3 jetliner crashes daily, each carrying 88 passengers, for a total of 264 accidental deaths occurring seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Alaska Airlines will be in the news for quite some time due to this recent crash. What would the stability of the airline company or the airline industry for that matter, be if a jetliner was to crash 3 times a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year?
The unforgiving truth is that this is taking place in U.S. hospitals as you read this. According to their reports, an average of as many as 264 patients breathe their last breath every day as a consequence of medical error. Let us reiterate that these are only the figures that have been reported by the medical profession and the hospitals themselves.
In the words of Dr. Ian Grassam, “The Medical profession is collapsing on itself. It is collapsing under the pressure of it’s own failure.”
As long as we go on living in a world of dis-information and subluxation, we will continue to have people dying day after day, unnecessarily in hospitals worldwide.
Tell the truth, serve the people, and continue to practice chiropractic with all the love in your heart.
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