Iatrogenesis
Iatrogenesis
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“Injury or illness caused by the healer is called
iatrogenic harm. It’s so widespread, so frequent, so massive, and so continuous
that it rarely makes headlines. And unlike a plane crash or a building
collapse, the vast majority of iatrogenic deaths can be kept under wraps — and
they are. Death by medical error or accident is the nation’s leading cause of
accidental death, exceeding all other causes of accidental death combined. Medical error and
accidents kill approximately as many people each month in the U.S. as
Covid-19 did before vaccines became available.” Use systems redesign and the law to prevent medical
errors and accidents by Michael J Saks and Stephan Landsman https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/04/medical-errors-accidents-ongoing-preventable-health-threat/
One
of the best kept secrets in this nation of bountiful concealments and intrigue
is the number of adverse reactions and deaths due to Iatrogenesis. What is
Iatrogenesis you ask? Iatrogenesis is when a patient is harmed or dies as the
result of: doctors’ wrong diagnosis, prescription error, faulty procedure,
medical error, negligence, equipment malfunction, hospital or nursing home
acquired infection or plain old malfeasance.
Iatrogenesis is a major cause of death in
the United States.
“There were a total of 3.35 million deaths in the United States in 2020. The leading
cause of death was heart disease, with 690,000 deaths. The second leading cause
was cancer, with 599,000 deaths. And the third leading cause? Iatrogenic death
– literally death by healer – causing approximately 400,000 hospital deaths.
(The Covid death toll in the United
States in 2020 was 345,000.) https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/michael-saks-on-the-epidemic-of-death-and-injury-from-healthcare/
Yet there is no outcry or uproar
about these increasingly high injuries and deaths.
Five
hundred ninety-nine thousand deaths due to the “health system” and these
numbers don’t include mild or severe injuries, extended hospitalizations or
deaths outside of hospitals! Not only is this an extremely well kept secret,
the medical, pharmaceutical and insurance industries are working diligently to
keep it that way. “Because hospital medical records often do not list incidents
of iatrogenic harm, novel methods have been developed to detect it. The
Institute for Health Care Improvement created a technique known as the Global Trigger, which scours medical records for subtle indications
that a patient suffered unexpected harm. A 2013 meta-analysis of Global Trigger studies found 10 times as
many adverse events as found by conventional records reviews, with deaths
numbering as many as 440,000 per year. Other studies, using on-scene observers,
have found comparable numbers of incidents. But hospitals are not the only
place where health care is delivered. Vastly more patient contacts occur
outside of hospitals, where the error profile is different, dominated by
diagnostic and medication errors. The limited data that exist suggest that the
number of deaths caused by iatrogenic harm outside of hospitals is roughly
equal to the number that occur inside hospitals.” Use system redesign and the
law to prevent medical errors and accidents Michael Saks and Stephan Landsman https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/04/medical-errors-accidents-ongoing-preventable-
health-threat/
While they may be inconvenient for the
patient, injuries and adverse reactions generate additional “treatment” thus further
revenue! There is a disincentive within the “health care system” to fix the
problem! Why would they fix this problem if they prioritize profit over people
and lack the moral fortitude to do the right thing when doing the right thing
would limit their bottom line?!
The
Pharmaceutical/Health delivery/insurance complex is a huge profit generating
partnership to the tune of trillions of dollars a year. https://www.statista.com/topics/6701/health-expenditures-in-the-us/#dossierKeyfigures
“But data on the five largest companies
in each sector by revenue show pharmaceutical company profits are leagues above
their health insurer and hospital peers, both on the for-profit and
not-for-profit side. The top five drug makers saw a cumulative profit margin of
19.4% in 2018. For health insurers, that was 4.3%. The profit margin across the
largest investor-owned health systems was 6% and 3% across the largest
not-for-profit health systems.” Pharma profits highest in healthcare Tara Bannow https://www.modernhealthcare.com/finance/pharma-profits-highest-healthcare.
None of these
entities want to kill their cash cow. None of them are talking about reducing
healer induced injury or death. In fact they are actively engaged in lowing
their liabilities and responsibility. Health care providers and insurance
companies don’t want to pay out losses due to suits and Big Pharma has been
working for decades to limit liability. “The pharmaceutical industry is currently
pushing an agenda to essentially eliminate the ability of individuals to pursue
fail-ure-to-warn claims against manufacturers, regardless of the adequacy of
the warning provided. Despite the existence of serious questions about the
integrity of industry raised by misconduct involving the medications Ketek,
Neurontin, Paxil, OxyContin, Trasylol, Vioxx, and Zyprexa, industry asserts
with a straight face that because it is regulated by the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), federal law should bar an individual's ability to bring a
failure-to-warn claim. The concern is that some courts have begun to buy this
argument.” Redemption, tort reform and pharmaceutical claims Russell J.
Thornton JD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190559/
The wholes system is
corrupt. The FDA is under regulatory capture by Big Pharma, the medical
equipment and the food processing industries as I have shown in previous
articles. What we are seeing with the COVID injection adverse reactions and
deaths are exacerbating Iatrogenesis on a global level! Nevertheless the Big
Pharma/medical/insurance hydra has no plans or means to reduce Iatrogenesis any
time soon.
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