Iatrogenic Death – What’s That?
Basically, it means that the doctor’s or hospital’s treatment killed you! Whatever happened to the admonition of Hippocrates, “As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm.” Consider the following information excerpted from a paper by Gary Null, Phd., and others:
A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. The total number of annual iatrogenic deaths is conservatively estimated to be around 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251.
To see the entire article by Dr. Null, please click the following link:
Here’s another source to check out from Dr. Mercola’s website:
