Iatrogenic Disease

by Jim Lynn - http://godshealingword.org/Iatrogenics.html

Because secular medicine depends so heavily on the use of toxic drugs, surgery and radiation in treatment, the medical industry has found itself facing many complications, one of which is iatrogenics. “Iatros” is Greek for “physician,” and “genic” is Greek for “caused by."

In other words, iatrogenic disease is a disease, sickness, impairment, disfigurement, or death caused by the practice of “acceptable” medical care (excluding malpractice or other medical mistakes). The problem of iatrogenics is not a fluke. Within the world of modern medicine it has reached epidemic proportions.

It is incredulous to think that trained, qualified, medical doctors would be responsible for causing death. But consider the following: In 1973, doctors in Israel went on strike, reducing their daily patient contact from 65,000 to 7,000. This strike lasted one month. According to the Jerusalem Burial Society, the Israeli death rate dropped 50 percent during that same month.1 There had not been such a profound decrease in mortality since the last doctors’ strike twenty years before.

In 1976, in Columbia, doctors went on strike for fifty-two days, and the death rate dropped 35 percent.2

In Los Angeles County, in 1976, doctors went on a work slow-down to protest soaring malpractice insurance premiums. This coincided with an 18 percent drop in the death rate.3

Incredible, but true! Life expectancy actually increases when doctors are absent, because of iatrogenics.

The effects of iatrogenic diseases are cumulative and self-perpetuating. In an effort to extricate himself from complications of diagnosis and therapy, the physician may compound the problem with his patient by having to employ maneuvers that are in themselves risky.4

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For example, many iatrogenic complications require specific treatment, thus exposing that patient to the possibility of yet another iatrogenic disease. A patient may experience an iatrogenic complication from a diagnostic test which was required to diagnose the initial iatrogenic disease. The situation in which an iatrogenic activity provokes a second iatrogenic complication is termed second level iatrogenesis. In a hospital setting these situations are not uncommon. It is even possible for third and fourth level iatrogenesis to occur.5

“Every drug administered, every diagnostic test performed, every operative procedure entered into, carries with it the risk of iatrogenic complications. The more medication, tests, and operations a patient experiences, the more likely he or she is to develop an iatrogenic disease. Because of the present fragmentation of medical care, with each sub-specialist looking after his own particular organ system, the total risk to which the patient is exposed is often forgotten.”6

How bad is the problem? Well, according a report issued by JAMA (Journal of The American Medical Association), a total of 225,000 deaths per year occur from iatrogenic causes!7

Barbara Starfield, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, author of the report, breaks down the death count this way:

12,000 - from unnecessary surgery8
7,000 - from medication errors in hospitals9
20,000 - from other errors in hospitals10
80,000 - from infections in hospitals11
106,000 - from non-error, negative effects of drugs12

Collectively, the 225,000 iatrogenic (doctor caused) deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer.

The underlying problem of iatrogenesis lies at the very nature of modern medicine itself. Modern medicine does not function to heal the chronically ill or to find and eradicate the root cause of disease. Rather, it operates under a philosophy to treat the symptoms of disease. Under this system of medicine, treatment, not healing, becomes the priority. This is why the pharmaceutical drug industry has found such a large customer base in modern medicine and courts it the way it does.

Blindly led, deluded, and thinking they will find healing, millions of chronically ill people opt for the attention of modern secular medicine but instead find only suffering and death. This is not to say, however, that all modern medicine is demonic or bad.

In the case of trauma or emergency care medicine, modern medicine, has become a life-saver for millions. Emergency care medical units can be found at virtually any U.S. hospital. The work performed by the doctors and nurses in these units is to be applauded. They deal with victims of all manner of accidents (car, industrial, farm, home, etc.).

However, the size of this specialty is small compared to the overall general practice of modern medicine, which treats symptoms of disease rather than diagnose and deal with the root cause of those symptoms.

Have you noticed the many ER (emergency room) shows on television? These programs serve to point out the life-saving skills of trauma personnel and the medical technology they use to save lives.

Have you also noticed the lack of television shows that deal with the medicine of chronic illness? There is a reason why such shows dealing with chronic illness are few to none. Secular medicine cannot withstand the scrutiny such a show would expose.

When you consider that doctors represent the third leading cause of death, it is no wonder that more and more physicians and other medical professionals are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their own profession. And rightfully so. Physicians have an age-old tradition for healing, not suffering and death.

What has happened to this once-honorable profession?

Satan has control of it. The original Hippocratic Oath, which required physicians to swear to do no harm and to practice his or her craft with purity and with holiness, no longer exists today. It has been replaced by a demonic oath, void of any holiness or omitted altogether.

I will not delve into the reason why this has occurred in this article. But a large record exists of exactly what happened. In a nutshell, the pharmaceutical industry took control of the hospitals, universities, research and other institutions across the land, both here in America and abroad. The result is that our once-honorable, holy form of medicine (void of toxic poisons, risky surgery, and dangerous radiation) now aligns itself with the powerful pharmaceutical industry.

As we know it today, a vast segment of modern medicine has become a god unto itself, completely void of any interest in healing. Iatrogenics is but one side effect of this ungodly form of medicine.

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Resources:

1. Hans Ruesch, Naked Empress or the Great Medical fraud, CIVIS (Latin acronymfor International Center of Scientific Information on Vivisection) Publications, POB 152, Via Motta 51, CH-6900 Massagno/Lugano, Switzerland, 1992, p.13.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Richard Taylor, Medicine Out of Control - The Anatomy of a Malignant Technology, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 46-47.

5. Taylor, op. cit., pp. 46-7.

6. Taylor, op. cit., pp. 47-8.

7. Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 284, July 26, 2000

8. Leape L.Unecessarsary surgery. Annu Rev Public Health. 1992;13:363-383.

9. Phillips D, Christenfeld N, Glynn L. Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993. Lancet. 1998; 351:643-644.

10. Lazarou J, Pomeranz B, Corey P., Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients. JAMA. 1998; 279:1200-1205.

11. Kohn L, ed, Corrigan J, ed, Donaldson M, ed, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1999.

12. Journal of American Medicine, 1998