I remember 22 years ago as if it were yesterday. It was a warm summer afternoon in July 2000 and at the time I was getting the print copy of JAMA. I was shocked to find the article that completely aligned with my interests, “Is US Health Really the Best in the World?”1 It was written by Barbara Starfield, MD.
Of course, I immediately sped to the article to carefully read it and discovered that buried in tables for the article was the data that physicians were the third leading cause of death in the United States. I created that headline 22 years ago and it has been a meme ever since then, and virtually no one realizes I created it.
Interestingly if you use the Brave search engine (which you should as Google search controls 95% of the searches in the world and steals your privacy) and you type in “Barbara Starfield JAMA July 2000” the first article that comes up is a headline with the meme I created.
For over 15 years when you typed in “doctors are the third leading cause of death,” my article on it from 2000 came up first, but those days are long gone, since Google has censored me out of the search engines for the past six years.
Starfield’s Ironic Tragedy — A Victim to What She Chronicled
Ironically, Starfield became a statistic to her own research. She died suddenly in June 2011, a death her husband attributed to the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken in combination with aspirin. However, her death certificate makes no mention of this possibility. In many ways, this echoed the COVID jab cover-ups where the true cause of death was obscured and hidden.
In the August 2012 issue of Archives for Internal Medicine,2 her husband, Dr. Neil A. Holtzman, wrote, in part:
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