A Doctor a Day Keeps the Apples Away

Side effects from prescription drugs kill an estimated 100,000 Americans every year, in effect, making medical care the sixth leading cause of death in the United States ... Another 7,000 deaths occur from getting the wrong medication by mistake.

The number one killer of Americans is the American diet. So, if diet is humanity's number one killer, then obviously it's the number one thing taught in medical school, right? Sadly, medical students around the world are poorly trained in nutrition.

We've known since the 1840s that the best way to prevent hospital-acquired infections is through hand-washing, yet compliance rates among healthcare workers rarely exceed 50%—and doctors are the worst.

When interns and residents are forced to pull all-nighters, they make 36% more serious medical errors, 5 times more diagnostic errors, and have twice as many attentional failures.

For chronic disease, our leading cause of death and disability, modern medicine doesn't have much to offer.