Peter C. Gøtzsche, Professor in Clinical Research Analysis, & Specialist in Internal Medicine

Peter C. Gøtzsche, Professor in Clinical Research Design & Analysis, and a Specialist in Internal Medicine

2 years ago I found out that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Our drugs kill around two hundred thousand people in America every year. And half of those people die while they do what their doctors told them. So they die because of the side effects, the other half die because of errors and it's often the doctors that make errors, because any drug may come with twenty, thirty or forty warnings, contraindications and precautions and so on. No doctor in the world knows about all this. So they give patients drugs that they should not have given them, that interact dangerously with other drugs or food items or so on and then the patients die...