Nothing to see here: 10% of all deaths in the US are due to medical errors in hospitals and clinics.
From John Hopkins website - 2016:
SHARE FAST FACTS *10 percent of all U.S. deaths are now due to medical error. *Third highest cause of death in the U.S. is medical error *Medical errors are an under-recognized cause of death
"Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S"
Good book to get: "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care" by Marty Makary (Bloomsbury Press, 2012).
Plus the "food pyramid", and related advice... the majority of obesity, diabetes and heart disease fall in that pile too, probably dementia too, imho.
Statin drugs cause dementia, it’s widely known
I don't doubt that, but there are some calling dementia type 3 diabetes... Being that dementia is a bucket diagnosis for symptoms of "losing one's mind", there's likely more than one cause.