America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead. Four commercial jets crashed that day. But what if six jumbo jets crashed every day in the US, claiming the lives of 783,936 people every year? That would certainly qualify as a massive tragedy, wouldn't it?
Well, forget "what if." The tragedy is happening right now. Over 750,000 people actually do die in the US every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: modern medicine.
Above from an article in http://www.newstarget.com/009278.html that makes fascinating reading.
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