Objective:Health #21 - Iatrogenesis - Death by Modern Medicine

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Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC

Iatrogenesis, from the Greek; Iatros, meaning doctor, and Genesis, meaning origin. The word means anything that comes from the result of working with a physician, but is usually used in terms of noxious, unintended, and undesired effects of medical therapies. Whether physician error, negative effects of drugs, therapies or procedures, iatrogenesis has been declared to be the number three killer of people in the United States; the number five killer worldwide.

Given such incredible numbers, questions inevitably arise. How can a system of healing be responsible for such huge numbers of fatalities and serious injuries? Is this simply the 'cost of doing business,' or is there something seriously wrong with modern medicine?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, an American physician and a medical reformer of the 19th century, said, "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as used now could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." It seems we've made little progress since Holmes' time.

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we discuss the topic of iatrogenesis; when attempts at healing cause harm.

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codis · 2019-07-01T12:13:52Z

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we discuss the topic of iatrogenesis; when attempts at healing cause harm.

I'm still waiting for a convincing argument that the modern Western "health care" system is about healing . All the facts and results prove otherwise.

zman · 2019-07-02T13:28:49Z

codis Yep, I fear you'll be waiting quite a while for any such evidence...then it'll all be a lie.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2019-07-01T12:19:18Z

I worked for about four years on a project at work where we interviewed ex-NHS patients who'd been through the hospital complaints procedure to zero avail. Night after night I'd be interviewing people who were saying things like.. "I went in for a simple procedure for an ingrowing toenail and now I'll never walk again". "I went in for a kidney transplant and the kidney they gave me turned out to have cancer. I then had to undergo chemotherapy and all my hair fell out." I used to do about five or six of these a night. It was really unrelentingly heavy sh*t.

I even spoke to doctors who told me things like "Every time something goes wrong in an NHS hospital, it's standard procedure to shred the documents and conspire against the patient. The hospital always comes before the patient. If the patient decides to sue, the hospital could go down", and I'd hear the same story from ex-patients night after night which pretty much confirmed what he'd said... "Well, I went in for blah blah blah, and then such and such happened, and then the hospital 'lost' my documents."

I spoke to one doctor who was acting on behalf of an elderly patient who was diabetic. He explained that this guy had gone into hospital, the staff new that he was diabetic, but they stopped giving him insulin so he'd die and free up a bed. "If you're old and you're admitted to an NHS hospital, you are literally fighting for your life", he told me.

I have no idea what happened to all results from all this research. I imagine that lot got shredded too.

Rincewind · 2019-07-01T13:49:21Z

Holy crap, that's sickening.

OMG! · 2019-07-01T15:56:46Z

If one really needs surgery for the removal of whatever, one should draw a broken line for the incision and a little diagram with instructions as they have a habit of removing the wrong kidneys and such like, but other than all that above its perfectly safe.

Although before considering surgery, one should always seek several opinions... a surgeon only preforms surgical solutions for an issue, it would be a bit of a bummer to undergo the removal of a body part, when all one needed was a change in diet or a change in life altogether.

The last surgery I had was in my dreams, DIY style making an incision to remove a bulbous cancer from my abdomen, ghastly business, although I passed out in my dreams at one stage so I must have forgotten to stitch myself back-up... Hmmm I might fit right in with any public health service. so don't mind me, get several qualified opinions.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2019-07-01T20:51:56Z

OMG! The phrase "They operated on the wrong leg" came up at least once.

That kind of thing is why I didn't go to hospital when I smashed my foot in a car accident earlier this year.

All mended up nicely now due to rigorous adherence to 1950's boxer diet since that time.

OMG! · 2019-07-02T01:38:04Z

I think it’s not only diet, its intent also... it’s probably a whole caboodle of everything inside and outside or call it epigenetics, that DNA that you have inherited from your ancestors that might have given you an innate inclination or your instinctive bias, the best of or anything along the standard deviation of the highland clan.

Anyway I will shot-up, Glade your foot is better and hope your brother takes an interest in your suggestions and takes action.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2019-07-02T06:07:54Z

OMG! I've never really had much going on in the way of physical maladies apart from 'breakages'. I've broken my foot twice, my arm once, I've had three broken ribs, so I figured my bone density must be pretty rubbish. There could be any number of reasons for that, but food was the answer.

I've given that quite a lot of thought. I think people in general, not just vegans, are generally undernourished. When I was a kid, people ate three meals a day. Whatever happened to that?

"Eat like a 1950's boxer" was quite a handy conceptual tool for me, rather than getting into a lot of paleo/carnivore/keto/keto-carnivore-omnivore-isms.

Also key was a common phrase you never hear much these days: "As fit as a butcher's dog".

I think the human digestive system is like an assimilation machine. It tends to assimilate well that which it is close to. It tends to assimilate poorly that which it is far from. That's why a lot of vegans look sort of sickly plant-y. If you look at these YouTube Vegans like Freelee, Earthling Ed, Vegan Gains, etc. Their faces look green. Their skin is like tree-bark. Their vains like hemp-rope.

zman · 2019-07-02T13:26:22Z

In the US, this is a business model. They start with birth...First it's baby formula, synthetic protein, preservatives and all. Then they move you to massive highly processed carb/sugar intake in your growing years (sweetened cereal grains) and beyond...ditching animal based products for plant based hydrogenated oils that they assure the public is far better for them...only the 'them' is the medical profession. After they've created the food pyramid of GMO veggies and grains to exist on, then they infuse it all with glyphosate. This wonderful corporate business based diet plan then sends you to their corporate based disease enabling health plan with corporate educated doctors that 'treats' each and every symptom separately and with any luck they will cause any number of interaction maladies, which they will treat with another pill or better yet suggest the real culprit is a malfunctioning body part that you'll just have to learn to do without. All this at a price just short of financial ruin. Then you might have time left to pick out your own burial arrangements...which only goes for @$3-4k (likely more). If all goes as planned, you'll be broke at about the time you die. Of course I've left out the bits about vaccines, being overweight, using artificial sweeteners (aspartame), artificial meats (GMO soy burgers), concentrated GMO sweeteners (CS, HFCS) and assorted other ways of maintaining the industries...which is of course of paramount importance.

Amerikagulag · 2019-07-04T16:15:37Z

The elite plan to eliminate 90% of the population has to be tested SOMEHOW!

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codis · 2019-07-05T08:05:48Z

Amerikagulag Dying quietly, after years of expensive pharma drug dependency, and childless, obviously seems a proper de-population alternative for that "elite", compared to the all-out wars we have seen in the last century.

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