A Public-Health Crisis That We Can Fix

Motor vehicle crashes kill as many people as breast cancer and twice as many people as murder, and injure more than 2 million people every year. I treat many patients for auto related injuries. 
After decreasing for several decades from 50,000 to the low 30,000's per year, the auto death rate has increased significantly by 14% over the last two years back up to 40,000. Most authorities agree this is due to distracted driving. 
I have posted on this topic several times over the last couple years.

A Public-Health Crisis That We Can Fix

Peter Gotzsche, founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, talks about dangers of prescription drugs

Many of our most commonly used drugs, from painkillers to antidepressants, are dangerous and are killing us off in large numbers, says a leading researcher. Peter Gotzsche, a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, the world's foremost body in assessing medical evidence estimates that 100,000 people in the United States alone die each year from the side-effects of correctly used drugs.
He goes on to say "It's remarkable that nobody raises an eyebrow when we kill so many of our own citizens with drugs." Professor Gotzsche says those deaths are only the tip of the iceberg and are representative of a system of drug regulation that simply does not protect patients.
Why are we allowing 2000 per week to die from these FDA approved drugs?

Peter Gotzsche, founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, visits Australia to talk about dangers of prescription drugs