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Old 09-10-2014, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by zonerboy View Post
I hafta agree with Gracie. If 100,000 people died because of side effects of prescribed medication, how many people would have died if these medications had not been available.

Ever wonder why the life expectancy today is so much greater than when you were born? Think it could have any thing to do with medical advances? Yeah, could be! How many would have died of polio if there were no vaccine? Just one example. Yes, the sky is not falling. Just my opinion.
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The issue is not whether the sky is falling or not. The issue, to some extent, is why people have such a hard time looking at this fact without immediately trying to justify it.
As Zonerboy and Gracie have pointed out, you are quoting a statistic which is taken out of context unless you compare the 100,000 lives lost to the number of lives saved.
While it's a tragedy that even one life has been lost because of prescription meds, I think that the statistic is just fear mongering unless compared to the billions of lives saved.
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