Annual US Preventable Medical Mistakes versus 234 years of US Combat Deaths

Do you know any one who is outraged about the loss of life in Iraq? Of course you do...but where is the outrage at the loss of life in our US hospitals...year after year...after year...?

Since the start of hostilities in the American Revolutionary war, the United States has lost about 626,566 men and women from combat deaths in 234 years. It takes US doctors and hospitals just 3.1 years to cause the very same number of deaths to US patients.

Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation. The report comes 10 years after the Institute of Medicine's "To Err Is Human" analysis, which found that 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying annually due to these errors and called for the medical community and government to cut that number in half by 2004.

Military casualties suffered by the United States of America in war or deployments:

Deaths ... Other... Wounded... Total.....

American Revolutionary War	1775–1783	8,000	17,000	25,000	50,000
Quasi-War	1798–1800	20		42	62
Barbary Wars	1801–1815	35		65	100
Other actions against pirates	1800–1900	10		21	31
Northwest Indian War	1785–1795	1221+		458	1679+
War of 1812	1812–1815	2,260	~17,000	4,505	~25,000
First Seminole War	1817–1818	30
Black Hawk War	1832	60+
Second Seminole War	1835–1842	328
Mexican–American War	1846–1848	1,733	11,550	4,152	17,435
Third Seminole War	1855-1858	26
Civil War: total	1861–1865	212,938
Union		140,414	224,097	281,881	646,392
Confederate		72,524
Indian Wars	1865–1898	919		1,025
Korean expedition	1871	3		9	12
Spanish–American War	1898	385	2,061	1,622	4,068
Philippine–American War	1898–1913	1,020	3,176	2,930	7,126
Boxer Rebellion	1900–1901	37		204
Mexican Revolution	1914–1919	35+		70
Occupation of Haiti	1915–1934	146		26+
World War I	1917–1918	53,402	63,114	204,002	320,518
Northern Russian Expedition	1918-1920
American Expeditionary Force Siberia	1918-1920
China	1918; 1921; 1926-1927; 1930; 1937	5		78	83
US occupation of Nicaragua	1927-1933	48		68	116
World War II	1941–1945	291,557	113,842	670,846	1,076,245
China {Cold War}	1945-1947	13		43	56
Berlin Blockade	1948-1949		31
Korean War	1950–1953	30,880	2806	92,134	128,650
Russia {Cold War}	1950-1955	32		12	44
China {Cold War}	1956	16			16
Bay of Pigs Invasion	1961	4			4
Vietnam War	1957–1973	47,424	10,785	153,303	211,454
Invasion of Dominican Republic	1965-1966	13		200	213
El Salvador Civil War	1980–1992	9		35
Beirut deployment	1982–1984	256		169
Persian Gulf escorts	1987–1988	39	0	31
Invasion of Grenada	1983	18	1	119
Invasion of Panama	1989	23		324
Gulf War	1990–1991	149	151	467
Somalia	1992–1993	29	14	153
Haiti	1994–1995	1		3
Bosnia-Herzegovina	1995-2004	1		6
Kosovo	1999	1	19	2+	22+
Afghanistan*	2001–present	532	224	2,379	3,125
Iraq War US Hospitals	2003–present 2003-present	3,788	540	46,132	50,460 ~1,000,000