Jane_Doe - 5:32 pm on Mar 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

A doctor's advice is the only way to really go.

I gotta side with Voltaire on this one, "Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”

Or, as a report from the Institute of Medicine put it,

"The human cost of medical errors is high. Based on the findings of one major study, medical errors kill some 44,000 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Another study puts the number much higher, at 98,000. Even using the lower estimate, more people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS."

Press Release [www4.nationalacademies.org]