Iatrogenic Illness: The Downside of Modern Medicine

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Iatrogenic Illness: The Downside of Modern Medicine

A White Paper by Gary Null, PhD & Debora Rasio, MD

Copyright, 2000

http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Iatrogenic/index.htm

 

(Quite the article... Lynn)

 

Gettingwell, Wayne Fugitt <wayne@f...> wrote:

> Evening Veronica,

>

>

> >Someone on the hypertension support list directed me to this

group.

> >I am trying to help my 67 year old mother, who has been

suffering

> >terribly for over two years now.

>

> This sounds like a classic example of iatrogenesis.

>

> -------------

> A new illness has steadily risen its head in conjunction with

the rise

> of modern medicine, it is called iatrogenesis - doctor induced

illness.

>

> Ivan Ilyich author of the book " Medical Nemesis, the

Expropriation of

> Health " calls iatrogenesis a plague. He defines three

commonly encountered

> types of iatrogenesis; Clinical Iatrogenesis, which is a

doctor-made

> illness; Social Iatrogenesis, which is deliberately crated by the

> machinations of the medical-industrial complex; and Cultural

Iatrogenesis,

> which saps the peoples will to survive.

>

> -----------

>

> It is so common, and they do it so much, a new word was

coined to

> identify " doctor induced illness " .

>

> Wayne

>