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Medication Errors Harming Millions, Report Says
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 21, 2006

At least 1.5 million Americans are sickened, injured or killed each year by errors in prescribing,
dispensing and taking medications, the influential Institute of Medicine concluded in a major
report released yesterday.

Mistakes in giving drugs are so prevalent in hospitals that, on average, a patient will be
subjected to a medication error each day he or she occupies a hospital bed, the report by a panel
of experts said.
[Source: www.washingtonpost.com]

Additionally, there is the risk of becoming infected with an illness while at the hospital.
Nosocomial infections are infections which are a result of treatment in a hospital, or a healthcare
service unit, but secondary to the patient's original condition.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated roughly 1.7 million
hospital-associated infections, from all types of bacteria combined, cause or contribute to 99,000
deaths each year. Other estimates indicate 10%, or 2 million, patients a year become infected,
with the annual cost ranging from $4.5 billion to $11 billion. In the USA, the most frequent type
of infection hospitalwide is urinary tract infection (36%), followed by surgical site infection
(20%), and bloodstream infection and pneumonia (both 11%)
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection]

These statistics do not begin to address the harm done to humanity as the medical profession
provides abortion services and counseling. In the United States alone 50-60 million babies have
been murdered by members of the medical profession in the past 40 years. Furthermore, the
medical profession has emotionally crippled and mentally maimed millions of children and
adults as it has prescribed powerful mind altering drugs to them. The devastation done to society
through means of this chemical sorcery is immense.

I do not use the phrase “chemical sorcery” lightly. The New Testament of the Bible was written
in Greek. In the ancient Greek language the word translated into English as “sorcery” is
“pharmakeia.” (See Revelation 18:23) This is the same Greek word from which we derive the
English words “pharmacy,” “pharmacist,” and “pharmaceuticals.” Dr. Peter Breggin is a licensed
psychiatrist who has spent more than 30 years warning Americans about the dangers of
psychotropic drugs. Dr. Breggin is not a Christian, and I cannot recommend many of his views,
but I highly recommend his expose of the dangers of psychiatric, mind altering drugs.

Dr. Breggin coined the phrase “medication spellbinding” to describe the effect that psychiatric
drugs have on people. The word “spellbinding” is a reference to sorcery. It describes someone
whose thoughts and actions are altered without the individual being able to recognize the manner,
or degree, to which they have been altered. In the following video, Dr. Breggin describes