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The Big Pill Push Doctors and pharmacists are under pressure to switch medications. You're more apt to die from prescription medication than from an accident, pneumonia, or diabetes. That's the unsettling news that last week came out of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that adverse drug reactions may be the fourth-ranking cause of death in the United States, right after heart disease, cancer, and stroke. But even the researchers were surprised at the number of deaths, between 76,000 and 137,000 a year, plus 2.2 million serious nonfatal reactions. The numbers are even more chilling because the researchers excluded cases where drugs were misprescribed or used wrongly.