We’re taught to trust the system. When we walk into a hospital, we believe we’re in safe hands. That’s the story we tell ourselves.
But for nearly half a century, a parallel literature has been documenting a darker truth: medical care itself is a leading cause of death in America.
It began in 1974, when the Journal of the American Medical Association warned of tens of thousands of annual drug-induced deaths. It continued through the Institute of Medicine’s landmark 1999 report, To Err Is Human, which found that medical errors kill more people than car accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. It culminated in a 2016 British Medical Journal study concluding that medical error is the third leading cause of death—behind only heart disease and cancer.
The estimates vary—from 44,000 to over 400,000 deaths annually—but the conclusion is consistent across all of them: preventable harm in healthcare settings is a public health crisis.
So why isn’t this on the CDC’s official ranking? Because death certificates aren’t designed to capture iatrogenic harm. They record the immediate biological event—cardiac arrest, sepsis, respiratory failure—but not the medication error, the hospital-acquired infection, or the unnecessary surgery that caused it.
The system is blind to its own failures. And that blindness costs lives.
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An Open Letter to Dr. Erica Schwartz, CDC director nominee:
Ma’am, I watched your testimony the other day. I watched you laugh when the “safe and effective” line came up.
As a paramedic with decades on the job, I don’t deal in BS theater. I deal with reality on the ambulance cot every shift.
These last few years have been a straight up nightmare. I’m seeing sudden cardiac events, strokes, aggressive cancers in younger patients, record numbers of sepsis, unusual seizures and more aortic dissections than ever before… these aggressive patterns I didn’t see prior to the COVID shots, at this scale. Just before writing this I ran another stroke call. I see the common threads across hundreds of calls since the mandates rolled out.
When you laughed, it wasn’t abstract. It wasn’t funny haha… It was a slap that landed on the face of every patient we’ve coded, every grandparent we’ve transported, every young person now facing life and death health struggles they shouldn’t.
Frontline medics like me are connecting the obvious dots while too many in charge seem bound and determined not to. We’ve become a nation hesitant to ask the hard questions if it threatens the pharmaceutical narrative.
You may think the script holds. But the evidence is walking into every ER in America. It’s being cared for in the back of each ambulance. The “emergency” isn’t funny, and it’s not going away.
A tsunami is coming. Laughter won’t stop it.
Sincerely disgusted,
Harry Fisher
Paramedic
God bless
@n13@DavidWolfe So true! Mind control is very powerful and critical thinking is in short supply. It helps to get rid of the TV. I donated my to the thrift store 16 years ago.