Is it true, doctors are the thid leading cause of death after heart-attack and cancer in USA,?

Yes, it's true. The number is a little off and it's a few years old (so it's probably higher than that by now), but it's still true. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive... says it was 225,000 (between unneccessary surgeries, medication errors in the hospital, other errors in the hospitals, etc) in 2000.

It specifies:

"ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

* 12,000 -- unnecessary surgery

* 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals

* 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals

* 80,000 -- infections in hospitals

* 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs

These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!"

The JAMA listed these figures (rounded off, but still accurate) at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=...

I wish it weren't true and that more doctors were more caring and concerned more with the patient's well-being than their paycheck or getting sued... but the numbers from the AMA don't lie.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

* Heart disease: 631,636

* Cancer: 559,888

* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119

* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583

* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599

* Diabetes: 72,449

* Alzheimer's disease: 72,432

* Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326

* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344

* Septicemia: 34,234