Doomed to Death By Medical Competence

 

 

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

Ivan Illich (Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health, 1975) wrote …

“The pain, dysfunction, disability, and anguish resulting from technical medical intervention now rival the morbidity due to traffic and industrial accidents and even war-related activities, and make the impact of medicine one of the most rapidly spreading epidemics of our time.”

We the People should have put the brakes on the Assassins In White way back in 1975 — 41 years ago — when Ivan Illich’s book was first published.

According to the same source …

“In 1971, between 12,000 and 15,000 malpractice suits were lodged in United States courts. Less than half of all malpractice claims were settled in less than eighteen months, and more than 10 percent of such claims remain unsettled for over six years. Between 16 and 20 percent of every dollar paid in malpractice insurance went to compensate the victim; the rest was paid to lawyers and medical experts. In such cases, doctors are vulnerable only to the charge of having acted against the medical code, of the incompetent performance of prescribed treatment, or of dereliction out of greed or laziness. The problem, however, is that most of the damage inflicted by the modern doctor does not fall into any of these categories. It occurs in the ordinary practice of well-trained men and women who have learned to bow to prevailing professional judgment and procedure, even though they know (or could and should know) what damage they do.”

In short, medical competence kills MILLIONS more people than medical incompetence.
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'Doomed to Death By Medical Competence' have 3 comments

  1. June 9, 2016 @ 4:34 pm Atom

    Why is vitamin D2 considered inferior?

    Maybe it’s because the irradiation patent expired in 1945, so now the University of Wisconsin has to make its money by patenting vitamin D analogs and derivatives.

    https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?s=vitamin+d&submit=Search

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  2. June 12, 2016 @ 7:44 pm Mark

    These are the ingredients in the Motrin Tablet recently suggested by a doctor for pain:

    carnauba wax, colloidal silicon dioxide, corn starch, FD&C yellow no.6, hypromellose, iron oxide, magnesium stearate, polydextrose, polyethylene glycol, pregelatinized starch, propylene glycol, shellac, stearic acid, titanium dioxide plus of course the ibuptofen

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    • June 13, 2016 @ 10:40 am Atom

      YIKES! That’s a classic example of, “If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.”

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