10 Terrible Ways Doctors are Trying to Kill You

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

However, at one UK hospital, government-imposed targets were so bad that they were killing patients.

By putting pressure on doctors as well as managers to accomplish unrealistic goals, bosses were simply skipping patient safety with predictable consequences.

According to a Royal College of Nursing 2008-survey, 78% of nurses thought patient care was compromised and 93% said they felt themselves under endless pressure.

Stressing out to the point of distraction is everything but life-saving.

7. Antibiotics

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Whenever you get an infection or virus, you mostly visit your doctor, get some antibiotics and get rid of it, as simple as that.

In fact, it’s not really that simple. Antibiotics aren’t dollar-spinners, which means that those bribe factories aren’t concerned about investing in new ones.

This leads to a terrible phenomenon called antibiotic resistance. The bacteria’s rapid process of evolution grants strains resistance to certain drugs to generate until almost all of them are immune.

Bad news: all those scary Victorian diseases we thought long gone may make a nasty return. E.coli and gonorrhea are already rejecting antibiotics and it may be about to get worse.

6. Experimental Drugs

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Everyone knows that famous scene where the patient lays on the hospital’s death-bed, the doctor desperately asks if they’d want to try a new experimental drug that might work even though still untested. The exhausted patient nods, after all, they have nothing to lose.

According to a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, only less than a third of experimental drugs had a positive effect on the patient, on the other hand, two-thirds caused at least one serious or deadly side effect.

You might be dying anyway but using these experimental drugs is more likely to end your life sooner rather than save it.

5. Unnecessary Surgery

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We often consider surgery as a last resort which hospitals do only when they must to. The picture of someone making you unconscious and dig into the inside of your body can be unbearable.