Selon [Philippe Juvin, chef des urgences à l'hôpital Beaujon, professeur d'anesthésie-réanimation (et secrétaire national de l'UMP chargé de la santé)], "au moins 10 000 personnes meurent chaque année à l'hôpital du fait de l'exercice de la médecine" et "de 300 000 à 500 000 événements indésirables graves se produisent chaque année" ; pour avancer ces chiffres, il se base sur "sur les chiffres américains" concernant ce même type d'accidents.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
America Needs a National Health Care System Like the Europeans'; After All, France's Medical Accidents Result in No More Than 10,000 Deaths Per Year
Why are American health care statistics so bad (relatively speaking), while the Europeans' national health care statistics are so good — leading to innumerable calls to imitate the Europeans and nationalize America's system? Well, it turns out that one reason is not that the Americans are clueless, reactionary, and backward, but that… the Europeans don't calculate their statistics as thoroughly as… (those clueless) Americans do. When one French doctor tried calculating his country's statistics, using the American model, it turned out that the system "only" produced the trifling number of… 10,000 deaths a year.
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