In a recent posting, I listed three causes of approximately 118,000 US deaths every year. I am reading Ralph Nader's most recent book, Only the Super-rich..., which I will review as soon as I finish reading it. In the meantime, some numbers just jumped off page 286 and I wanted to share them with you as soon as possible.
Numbers are again approximate
65,000 die each year from air pollution58,000 die from workplace related disease and trauma100,000 die from medical negligence or incompetence in hospitals100,000 die from adverse effects of commercially advertised drugs
That is an additional total of 323,000 added to the originally reported 118,000 for a grand total of 441,000 preventable deaths per year here in the US. Reducing those numbers must be a high national priority.
