Page editor's note - At the top of this page, you will find some humorous illustrations, but the sad fact is that there is nothing funny about the scores of people who are injured , who develop terrible diseases , or who die as a result of the treatment of allopathic physicians inflicting upon patients the allopathic protocol. Although the topic part of the page has some biting satire, the balance of the page does have serious links and discussions of the very real and prevalent problem of the varied bad outcomes of iatrogenically caused conditions which flow from adherence to the allopathic protocol and algorithm. Also, most of these links are links to reports by MDs themselves describing these terrible outcomes. Also, before skeptics of the page say something like "These are just a few , expectable bad outcomes, the majority are good outcomes", the fact is, I could fill page after page with these horrible outcomes. If our health care systems is pushing good outcome based evaluations as the sine qua non of health care, they should consider Chiropractic, Homeopathic, and Naturopathic. I found I couldn't find page after page of bad outcomes from these health care systems.

Note: Dr. Stephen Barrett, M.D. has provided a link to this page on one of his pages at chirobase.org. He says I bash some medical practices...I rather observe that it is an exposing of the allopathic algorithm and its inherent dangers as a public service due to the serious health risk posed by many if not most allopathic treatment protocols which utilize drugs and surgical intervention as their treatment modalities.

" Iatrogenic illness -- disease produced as a result of medical treatment -- is now recognised as a
health hazard of global proportions. MEDLINE (the computerised medical research database of the
United States National Library of Medicine) includes over 7,000 articles, reports, and scientific
research papers since 1966 that show a substantial number of patients suffer treatment-caused
disorders and adverse drug reactions. These harmful effects, which can be serious and even lethal,
are associated with every facet of modern medicine including drugs, other medical therapies,
diagnostic procedures, and surgery."- source located here

Iatrogenic Death
" The high death rate from hospitals was revealed by the release of data from the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital. During the past decade, hundreds of patients at this hospital suffered serious injury, and at least 66 died because of medical "mistakes." Some of the patients were never told that the injuries were caused by the doctors, and no disciplinary action was taken on any of the doctors involved in these incidents.

HOW MANY SURGEONS ARE HIV POSITIVE ?-
"...The CDC has not done testing on this scale since the early 1970s when technology first became available for studying the prevalence of the hepatitis B virus, said Dr. Mary Chamberland, chief of the CDC's epidemiological studies unit. At that time--before introduction of a vaccine against that viral infection--tests run at annual meetings for doctors, surgeons and dentists found that 25% of those participating were infected with hepatitis B.

Chamberland noted that she was not expecting that high a rate for infection with the AIDS virus. Previous tests--in the military and among dentists--indicate that about one health worker in 1,000 may have become infected at work with the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

But orthopedic surgeons are of special concern, Chamberland noted, because they have an unusually high risk for "needle sticks, scalpel cuts, exposure to blood on the job." In a recent CDC study of four hospitals, orthopedic, trauma and gynecological surgeons received some sort of injury in 2.5% of their operations.

Added academy spokesman Alvin Nagelberg: " There's always the danger of doctors getting punctured and the infected physician transmitting the disease to the patient. Or the patient to the physician." ...- source

During 1999 mainstream institutions revealed that one of the biggest killers in the U.S. is medical mistakes.

" These records became publicized because of bankruptcy proceedings, when the new owner filed a detailed account of the 598 incidents from 1989 to 1998. This level of iatrogenic death and injury is typical of hospitals in the United States. A study by Harvard University professor Lucian Leape, reported by Knight Ridder newspapers, found that one million patients are injured by errors during hospital treatment annually, with some 120,000 deaths. One out of every 200 patients in hospitals in New York State had an iatrogenic death. Less than 10 percent of the medical mistakes are reported to hospital authorities. " - SOURCE

MEDICAL ERROR - " We estimated that in 1994 overall 2,216,000 hospitalized patients had serious adverse drug reactions. Serious adverse drug reactions were defined as those that resulted in death, were permanently disabling, or required hospitalization. We estimated that 106,000 had fatal adverse drug reactions, making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death. We excluded errors in drug administration, noncompliance, overdose, drug abuse, therapeutic failures, and possible adverse drug reactions. The incidence of serious and fatal adverse drug reactions in U.S. hospitals was found to be extremely high! According to author Bruce H. Pomeranz, only 156 death certificates showed deaths due to drug reactions. Even when the cause is known to be a drug, that is rarely recorded on the death certificate. A certificate might list a stomach hemorrhage as the cause of death, without mentioning the use of the drug that brought it on ."

"The NEW YORK TIMES reported that 5% of people admitted to hospitals, or about 1.8 million people per year, in the U.S. pick up an infection while there. Such infections are called "iatrogenic" -- meaning "induced by a physician," or, more loosely, "caused by medical care." Iatrogenic infections are directly responsible for 20,000 deaths among hospital patients in the U.S. each year, and they contribute to an additional 70,000 deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The dollar cost of iatrogenic infections is $4.5 billion, according to the CDC." - source is located HERE

Studies such as the Harvard Medical Practice Study, which was designed to develop more current and reliable estimates of the incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients, have shown that there is a significant amount of injury to patients caused by the delivery of medical care. For example, the Harvard study found that almost 4 percent of the 30,195 sampled hospital admissions in New York State in 1984, reflected an injury that increased the length of hospital stay. Fourteen percent of these injuries were fatal (Brennen, et al, 1991; Leape, et al, 1991). - source here

Freedom is supposed be to the hallmark of our country . Why then , has the allopathic medical community conspired through lobbying and licensing laws after the Popular Health Reform Movement of the 1830s, to monopolize the health care system of this country ?

IATROGENIA - NATURE ATTACKED BY MEDICINE, THE INJURIES MDs CAUSE
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HARVARD STUDY ABOUT MALPRACTICE SUITS - "The principal conclusions of the Harvard study are: 1) malpractice was frequent in the hospitals studied; 2) a high toll of avoidable medical injury nationwide can be inferred from this frequency rate; and 3) relatively few of the injured patients actually sued. From this it is deduced that the "real problem" is not that there is too much malpractice litigation but that there is too little, and that the admittedly high rate of meritless suits against physicians is preferable to reform of the tort system. Consumers Union, which has worked closely with anti-tort-reform efforts in Washington, has claimed that the Harvard study proves doctors "kill" 80,000 patients a year. " -

FEWER MDs WOULD BE SUED FOR MALPRACTICE REGARDLESS OF THEIR NEGLIGENCE, IF THEY WOULD JUST "BE NICE" TO PATIENTS - " It is the common wisdom that better physician-patient communication is an important risk management technique. "They wouldn't sue us if we were nice to them." Is it true? Is it that simple? And if it is, what does "nice" mean? What behaviors are significant to patients to make them see us as nice?

Malpractice Makes Perfect -" Reviewing stroke, pneumonia, and heart attack deaths from 12 hospitals, one study found that over a quarter of the deaths might have been prevented. A study in JAMA found that one in seven heart attacks occurring in a hospital were actually caused by the physician." Also , from the above site- " The first major malpractice expose was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1981:

[Researchers found that over a third] of 815 consecutive patients on a general medical service of a university hospital had an iatrogenic [doctor-caused] illness. In 9 percent of all persons admitted, the incident was considered major in that it threatened life or produced considerable disability. In 2% of the 815 patients, the iatrogenic illness was believed to contribute to the death of the patient.

Then in 1990, rocking the medical community, the Harvard Medical Practice Study. Conducted by the university's prestigious school of public health, it is considered one of the most comprehensive and objective empirical studies of malpractice ever performed. Based on the review of over 30,000 randomly selected patient records, researchers estimated that 27,179 injuries, including 6895 deaths and 877 cases of permanent and total disability, resulted from physician negligence in New York state alone in one year."

Studies suggest that, given the same outcome, you are three times more likely to get sued if you are perceived badly by the patient. According to the Harvard study of hospital records in New York state, a small minority of the iatrogenic injuries result in suits. There is plenty of room for good bedside manner to help"

Less than one percent of complaints filed with California medical board result in a physician losing or giving up license to practice

A Walk on the Wild Side of Allopathic Medicine: Going Ballistic Instead of Holistic - Is there a bias against Chiropractic and so-called "Holistic therapies " evidenced by the Allopathic community ?

Hazards of Modern Medicine An Overview Based on a Selection of Findings from the More than 10,000 Articles, Reports, and Scientific Research Studies in the Medical Literature
By Barry M. Charles, MD

Ethical and Practical Issues in Disclosing Medical Mistakes to Patients -
" While moonlighting in an emergency room, a resident physician evaluated a 35-year-old woman who was 6 months pregnant and complaining of a headache. The physician diagnosed a ‘mixed tension/sinus headache’ The patient returned to the ER 3 days later with an intracerebral bleed, presumably related to eclampsia, and died.

Errare humanum est: "to err is human." In medical practice, mistakes are common, expected, and understandable.^1.2 Virtually all practicing physicians have made mistakes, but physicians often do not tell patients or families about them. ...The American Medical Association's (AMA's) Principles of Medical Ethics (1957) states that a physician must report an accident, injury, or bad result stemming from his or her treatment.⁵ However, many physicians interpret these requirements to mean that they should report to their superiors or to the hospital quality assurance or risk management committee, rather than to the patient. More recently, the American College of Physicians Ethics Manual states, "physicians should disclose to patients information about procedural and judgment errors made in the course of care, if such information significantly affects the care of the patient."⁶ The AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs states. "Situations occasionally occur in which a patient suffers significant medical complications that may have resulted from the physician's mistake or judgment. In these situations, the physician is ethically required to inform the patient of all facts necessary to ensure understanding of what has occurred."

Allopathic Medicine : Pointing out the dangers

The titular head of modern allopathic medicine , Hippocrates of Cos, had as his first guiding principle , "Primum non nocere" or "First, do no harm". On this page, we will look at how allopathic physicians and dentists do perform harm through what they do and through their protocols for "disease management" and "algorithms of care".

The origin of this page is as follows. Firstly , I am from a family of doctors including my great grandfather who was an MD, my grandfather was a Vet,my uncle is an MD, and my cousin is an MD. I became a DC or Doctor of Chiropractic (not "chiropractor", a word I reject). I happened upon a web site run by an MD named Stephen Barrett. His page is chirobase . After reading a bit of his page and his links, it was obvious that , in my opinion , he is rabidly anti-Chiropractic to the point of an unhealthy obsession.

The second thing I decided was that there ought to be a page to not only counter his odd preoccupation with this healing art , but one to balance his, by way of pointing out that the allopathic system is far from perfect as well.

Lets's look at some, shall we ?

Definitions :

Health Care Accounting Terminology

iatrogenic:

Induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy.

IATROGENIC--an adverse effect caused by a physician's actions,
including reactions from prescribed drugs or from medical procedures. z
(Iatros = physician and gen = producing)

Also...Iatrogenic: "caused by doctors or therapists".

In physical medicine, iatrogenic disease might be disease caused by surgical errors, by infections caught as a result of treatment, by poisoning due to inappropriate drugs or drug side-effects, etc.

http://www.iatrogenic.org/
"The American Iatrogenic Association is devoted to the study and reporting of illness caused by the medical profession, especially by physicians. "

IATROGENIC ERROR AND TRUTH TELLING- the dirty little secret that they hide
" The history of literature on medical truth telling dates as far back as 1803 when Thomas Percival wrote that "to a patient, who makes inquiries which, if faithfully answered, might prove fatal to him, it would be a gross and unfeeling wrong to tell the truth . "

IATROGENIC INJURY IN AUSTRALIA
" ...Healthcare is a risky business. Simply being a patient in an acute care hospital in Australia carries, on average, a 200-fold greater risk of dying from the care process than being in traffic, and a 2000-fold greater risk than working in the chemical industry.

Iatrogenic injury is costly; at least 10% of admissions to acute-care hospitals in Australia are associated with a potentially preventable adverse event. It may be estimated that the total direct medical costs of these events exceeds $2 billion per year and that the total life-time cost of such preventable injury exceeds $6 billion per year; there is also a heavy toll in human costs on both those who are harmed and those who care for them. Furthermore, medical misadventure consumes over half the amount spent on compensation and insurance by State Treasury Departments. "

JAMA stats tell the tale : Doctors kill more people than guns and traffic accidents

Meningocerebral lesions in children with iatrogenic AIDS
Abstract: This study is focused on structural modifications of leptomeninges and cerebral matter in children deceased because of iatrogenic AIDS. Although we do not evidence the specific lesions of AIDS, we have noticed edema, hyperemia, hematic extravasation, microlesions of the small vessel walls, perivascular infiltrations with lymphocytes, macrophages and even plasmocytes, moderate tigrolysis, mild demyelination, gliosis and sidero-calcic deposits. We do not consider these lesions as specific to HIV-infected patients (Page editor note , remember, Iatrogenic means "physician caused" ).

Iatrogenic diseases endanger hospital patients

Failed back surgery - Arachnoiditis is a chronic, insidious condition that causes debilitating, intractable pain and a range of other neurological problems. It has been regarded as rare by the medical community, but Burton reported as early as 1978(i) that it is "common in patients with severe back and/or leg pain and functional impairment due to the failed back surgery syndrome." Arachnoiditis is the third most common cause of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS), after stenosis and recurrent disc problems. Arachnoiditis was previously the second most common cause. This was largely due to the adverse effects of oil-based myelography. The incidence has decreased, but a high proportion of cases of clinically significant adhesive arachnoiditis is now found to be due to the adverse effects of epidural steroids such as Depo-Medrol (Depo-Medrone).

Botched circumcision references

RRP (Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis - However challenging the disease itself is, the story does not end there. Collateral, physician-caused damage is called iatrogenic injury. Many physicians overestimate their knowledge and competence in managing RRP. Iatrogenic injuries sustained at the hands of over-aggressive surgeons all too frequently leads to permanent vocal scarring and hoarseness .

Iatrogenic spread of H. pylori - How do people get infected with H. pylori?
It is not known how H. pylori is transmitted or why some patients become symptomatic while others do not. The bacteria are most likely spread from person to person through fecal-oral or oral-oral routes. Possible environmental reservoirs include contaminated water sources. Iatrogenic spread through contaminated endoscopes has been documented but can be prevented by proper cleaning of equipment. (Recent studies have shown an association between long-term infection with H. pylori and the development of gastric cancer. )

THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS AND MEDICAL LIABILITY IN WEST VIRGINIA

AOS MEETING: Rapid Hearing Loss Observed With Overuse Of Vicodin
" ...The combination of hydrocodone and acetampinophen is used commonly to alleviate pain presents side effects similar to other habit forming medications and has the potential for inciting physiologic dependence and tolerance with repeated use. Additional symptoms related to overdose include respiratory depression, hypotension and coma "

Prevention and Management of Laparoendoscopic Surgical Complications
"...In addition, significant injury to the bladder and the ureters can occur during the performance of laparoscopic procedures such as hysterectomies, ovarian surgery, and treatment of endometriosis. "

Aspirin overdose

Severe limb ischemia due to iatrogenic trauma

http://www.drharvey.com/articles/iatrogenic.html :
I have heard the term "Iatrogenic Disease." Could you please explain what this means and how you feel about it?

A. "Iatros" is Greek for "physician," and "genic" is Greek for "caused by." Iatrogenic disease is a disease, sickness, impairment, disfigurement, or death caused by the practice of acceptable medical care. This does not include malpractice or other medical mistakes.

Even something as simple as taking aspirin can cause an "iatrogenic disease." A study at Yale New Haven Hospital showed that 100,000 people die and 1 1/2 million others are hospitalized from iatrogenic reactions every year in this country. That means that each week 2,000 people die and 30,000 are hospitalized from the medications they take for the illnesses, not from the illnesses themselves. An additional 48,000 people die each year in the United States from unnecessary surgery, according to a Johns Hopkins study. That is nearly 1,000 deaths a week from surgery that should not have been performed.

As an interesting example, in Israel, in 1973, doctors went on strike and reduced their daily patient contact from 65,000 to 7,000. This strike lasted a month. According to the Jerusalem Burial Society, the Israel death rate dropped 50 percent during that month. There had not been such a profound decrease in mortality since the last doctors' strike 20 years before. In 1976, in Columbia, the doctors struck for 52 days and the death rate dropped 35 percent. In Los Angeles County, in 1976, the doctors went on a work slow-down to protest soaring malpractice insurance premiums. This coincided with an 18 percent drop in the death rate. Does this mean that all medicine is bad? Of course not. However, it is obvious that there are many dangers involved with medicine, that is why many more MDs are becoming more involved with holistic or more natural ways of health care. These include nutrition, exercise, and other lifestyle changes." -from the website linked above

"Ralph Nader, the nation's foremost consumer advocate, thinks that the medical profession kills nearly 300,000 Americans each year. Even if Nader exaggerates by an extremely improbable 95%, that's a horrible number of funerals caused by physicians."---Dr Saul http://24.93.10.107/quackquack.html

A NEW THEORY ON THE IATROGENIC ORIGIN OF AIDS
by Leonard G Horowitz, DMD; Walter Kyle, JD; and Alan R Cantwell, Jr., MD

THE IATROGENIC NATURE OF AIDS
Statistical evidence from the CDC's data

Transfusion transmitted disease-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (a i d s l i n e )

Endoscopic cleaning and disinfection procedures for
preventing iatrogenic spread of human immunodeficiency virus

ACQUIRED IATROGENIC DEATH SYNDROME (AIDS) Pneumonias & Lung Diseases

A 1995 study, Quality in Australian Healthcare, indicated
as many as 50,000 patients were injured and 18,000 died
each year due to errors in hospitals. Hospital fatalities blamed on staff

VACCINE DANGERS

more on vaccine dangers

Iatrogenic Peritonitis

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the United States, 1979-1994
The transmissibility of CJD has been verified with reports of iatrogenic transmission from a corneal transplant, electroencephalographic depth electrodes, neurosurgical procedures, cadaveric dura mater grafts, and pituitary hormone administration

Ritalin - the Side Effects

Iatrogenic ureteric injuries: approaches to etiology and management

Iatrogenic Medial Patellar Dislocation

NSAIDS-Arthritis Treatment or Dangerous Compounds?
DANGERS of NSAID usage -Here again we were reminded of iatrogenic perils: "Nearly 9 million arthritis sufferers take large doses of such "NSAIDs" daily. Some 10,000 of them die every year from gastrointestinal complications - many of them "silent ulcers" that show no symptoms until they become life threatening."

Iatrogenic Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome

TLC Crimps Liability After Iatrogenic Hand-Nerve Injury
In a 10-year study of 107 iatrogenic hand-nerve lacerations, mainly caused by orthopedic or plastic surgeons, 85 were blamed by the surgeons on aberrant anatomy. But that excuse proved illusory for 59 during reparative surgery, says a Philadelphia Hand Center team.

Other reasons given for the iatrogenic injuries were inadvertent patient movement, faulty equipment, “the knife slipped,” and “nerves running funny.”

Anti-migraine drugs might cause more pain than relief
for those with heart disease

http://www.chiro.org/abstracts/mederror.html - great page !

Iatrogenic hepatic rupture in the newborn and its management by pack tamponade

Physician-Patient Dialogue:Key to Avoiding Malpractice Lawsuits

Iatrogenic Changes in Cervical Cytology

Human Error: Designing for Error in Medical Information Systems

MEDICAL MISTAKES

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - malpractic suits possilbe against "trainers"

" The common primary allegations in malpractice claims involving endoscopy include improper performance (most common), iatrogenic injuries (often cited with improper performance), errors of diagnosis, and medication errors. In addition, there are some associated secondary issues involving informed consent, problems with adequacy of facilities or equipment, records, or billing and collection procedures. Problems with informed consent are alleged in nearly half of actions filed, usually as a secondary allegation associated with a claim of improper performance and iatrogenic injury.
The foregoing discussion underscores the importance of obtaining proper informed consent and documenting this in the medical record. An important additional risk management strategy for those introducing new or advanced techniques into practice is that of stratifying patients with regard to risk and potential for damages. Early in one's experience, the safest course is to attempt the easier cases and those with the lowest potential for large damage assessments and refer more difficult situations to an expert.
While the legal exposure to the endoscopist who offers new or advanced techniques is obvious, the issue of legal liability of the trainer has also been raised. There is concern that trainers may have some legal exposure due to subsequent actions of trainees. Although the trainer may be named in a legal action, he or she would generally escape liability since he or she was not supervising the act, the act was probably within the scope of practice of the operator, and the negligent act is usually deemed to be committed solely by the operator."

Therapeutic drug use (not illicit drug use) each year; kills as many as 198,815 people, puts 8.8 million people in hospitals, accounts for 28% of all hospital admissions, and costs as much as $182 billion dollars. American Medical News. Jan 15, 1996, p.11

Iatrogenic sciatic neuropathy

Treatment of Iatrogenic Disease and Vaccinosis
FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS -The facial nerve can also be injured during middle ear and mastoid surgery. If iatrogenic transection occurs during surgery, the nerve must be repaired. If paralysis occurs postoperatively and the surgeon is confident that the nerve was intact at the conclusion of the case, a high resolution CT scan should be obtained and facial nerve testing should be done on POD #4 - 6

Iatrogenic perforation of perivaterian duodenal diverticulum:
Nosocomial (acquired from hospital stay) infections

Nosocomial infections (aka "hospital generated") strike 1 out of 10 hospitalized patients, or 2.5 MILLION people per year :
The average nosocomial infection costs $1,800 to clear up, or $4 BILLION dollars yearly
Nosocomial infections cause 20,000 deaths annually and are a contributing factor in another 60,000 deaths per year
"Total Wellness" by Dr. Joseph Pizzorno

Successful surgical repair of iatrogenic lung perforation in a neonate.

Iatrogenic Disease

IATROGENIC PLAGUE DISASTER
"On the 16th day in November in 1906, Robert Strong Pearson inoculated 24 men - inmates at of the Bilibid prison in Manilla - with an experimental cholera vaccine that had "mysteriously" become contaminated with plague organisms. All recipients of the vaccine fell ill and 13 in fact died. It was speculated by Strong and his colleagues that the visiting physician from Chicago had accidentally placed one of Strong's plague tubes in the cholera rack. Although a general committee was appointed to investigate the incident by the governor-general of the Philippines, no mainland investigations ensued. "

Iatrogenic

iatrogenic. 1. Med (of an illness or symptoms) induced in a patient as the result of a physician's words or action.

NEWS REPORT: 1998 Bad reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medicines kill more than 100,000 Americans and seriously injure an additional 2.1 million every year -- far more than most people realize, researchers say. Such reactions, which do not include prescribing errors or drug abuse, rank at least sixth among U.S. causes of death -- behind heart disease, cancer, lung disease, strokes and accidents, says areport based on an analysis of existing studies. (University of Toronto study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Bruce Pomeranz )

Iatrogenic Hypoglycemia and Malpractice Claims

Preventable drug-related morbidity and mortality was estimated to cost $76.6 billion in the ambulatory setting in the United States. The largest component of this total cost was associated with drug-related hospitalizations. The estimated cost ranged from a conservative estimate of $30.1 to $136.8 billion in a worst-case scenario. -Johnson JA, Bootman JL, Drug-related morbidity and mortality. A cost-of-illness model., Arch Intern Med 1995; 155(18):1949-56

IATROGENIC DRUG RELATED DISEASES
Are psychiatric drugs the cause of violence and killings
in our schools? From: "Prescription Medicine Information Bureau"
TRAUMATIC AND IATROGENIC LESIONS OF THE TRACHEA AND BRONCHI

PHARMACOTHERAPY FOR WEIGHT LOSS

During 1996 there was a renewed interest in pharmacotherapy for weight loss. The feature article of the September 23, 1996 issue of Time was on the FDA approved drug Redux. For the past two years the Virginia Board of Medicine has been in the process of promulgating an amendment to General Regulation 18 VAC 85-20-90 regarding pharmacotherapy for weight loss. Many physicians, pharmacists, and patients felt that Part B of this regulation was too uncertain. This regulation stated:

"It shall be unprofessional conduct for a physician to prescribe amphetamine-like drugs, schedules III and IV, for the purpose of weight reduction or control in the treatment of obesity, except as a short-term adjunct to a therapeutic regimen of weight reduction." (emphasis added)

The Influence of Anatomic and Iatrogenic Root Surface
Characteristics on Bacterial Colonization and Periodontal Destruction: A Review

Repairing Iatrogenic Root Perforations

Prescribing errors -Several easily identifiable factors are associated with a large proportion of medical prescribing errors. Factors commonly associated with errors in prescribing medications were inadequate knowledge or use of knowledge regarding drug therapy; presence of important patient factors related to drug therapy such as age, impaired renal function, and drug allergy; the need for calculation of drug doses; and specialized dosage formulation characteristics and medication prescribing nomenclature. Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients are "...countable, dangerous and evaluable events, not just a collection of unhappy accidents that strike, like cosmic rays, in ways that we cannot predict or understand. In an era of constrained resources, it is vital to remember that [drug errors] in hospitals are common, costly and preventable in many cases." Lesar TS; Briceland L; Stein DS; Factors related to errors in medication prescribing JAMA 1997; 277(4):312-7

Drug errors not only increase costs, but also significantly prolong hospital stays and increase the risk of death almost 2-fold.
Classen DC; Pestotnik SL; Evans RS; Lloyd JF; Burke JP; Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality JAMA 1997; 277(4):301-6

IATROGENIC TIBIALIS POSTERIOR LESIONS AFTER OSTEOSYNTHESIS OF THE MEDIAL MALLEOLUS

Iatrogenic Injuries: Acute Tubular Necrosis

Iatrogenic Injuries: Pneumothorax

Iatrogenic Infections of the Reproductive Tract

Evidence-Based Medicine/Iatrogenic Depression

Pneumothorax, Iatrogenic, Spontaneous and Pneumomediastinum

Duplex-guided thrombin injection for iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysm
is effective even in anticoagulated patients.

An unusual iatrogenic burn from a heated dental instrument.

Iatrogenic Suicide

Interleukin-2 therapy induced malnutrition in up to 90% of 20 patients tested. The authors recommend prophylactic nutritional supplements to stem the immune suppression from this iatrogenic malnutrition- link (good information for cancer sufferers)

" When travelleling in unknown land you sometimes go the wrong
way. There is no reason to hide the fact that iatrogenic injuries takes
place. By admitting the fact they can be addressed and avoided "
-Bo Stenback, MD
University Hospital
S-585 81 Linkoping
Sweden
WHEN TO STOP THE DRUGS IN CHRONIC ILLNESSES IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

MEDICAL MUSEUM- kind of a neat page showing
some of the old devices and medicines MDs used in the past.

Examples of Iatrogenic (physician caused) disease

An Epidemic of Circumcision- George Denniston, M.D.

Binge Eating is an Iatrogenic Disorder

The Iatrogenic Effects of Assessment on the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Cost of Iatrogenic Injury

Iatrogenic dysgueusia
Iatrogenic False Aneurysm Following Repair of Intracranial Aneurysm

Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections

Pyridoxine Dependent Epilepsy with Iatrogenic Sensory Neuronopathy

17% of ALL hospital admissions are caused by the side effects of drugs administered by an MD
8 million people are hospitalized annually for diseases brought on by prescription drugs
Adverse drug reactions are responsible for 100,000 deaths yearly
Prescription drug-related diseases and death cost the US $77 BILLION dollars a year
Archives of Internal Medicine; Oct 9, 1995

LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY: AN IATROGENIC AND OCCUPATIONAL RISK

On Injuries of the Head / By Hippocrates / Written 400 B.C.E

Doctors document case of HIV reinfection -" According to doctors, the Ottawa Hospital patient was reinfected after a sexual relationship with another HIV positive patient who was being treated at the hospital. " (from the hospital setting , could this be a nosocomial infection?).

This one is just a cool site for any doctor to check out :
http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/MuscleInjuries/MuscleInjuries.html

LINKS:
http://www.chiroweb.com

http://www.healingpeople.com

http://www.homeopathic.org

http://www.naturopathic.org/

http://www.chiropractic.org/

http://www.voiceoftheinjured.com/a-mm-iatrogenic-complications-medical-care.html

http://www.patientprotect.org/sinwomenshour.htm

http://aava.org/pub/iatrogenic.html

http://www.healthcastle.com/se_chemo.shtml

http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_4447.htm

http://www.socesp.org.br/revista/v9n6/935a.htm

http://www.worksafe.gov.au/databases/biblio/m/000276.htm

http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00464/contents/00/00102/s004640000102ch002.html

http://www3.umassd.edu/projects/Nursin/11.20.199906.55PM.html

http://nutrition.psu.edu/courses/nutr251/nutr251www/intro/iatromal.html

http://www.spineuniverse.com/1p/ejournal/ag_053100lowe_transitionzone.html

http://www.bnk.de/herz/herzeng/herz99_7e/editeng.htm

http://www.spineuniverse.com/1p/ejournal/ag_053100lowe_transitionzone.html

http://www.slackinc.com/eye/jrs/vol143/seil.htm

http://www.rrpwebsite.org/discussion5/_disc1/00000078.htm

http://www.ayurveda.com/

http://statefarm.business.webjump.com

http://www.drjohnbaker.com/internalarts.htm

http://www.drjohnbaker.com/chiroarticles.htm

http://chirpracticdoctor.homepage.com

http://1freespace.com/chiropractic/

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