Death by Medicine
Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD
Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD
October 2003

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INDEX

·         ABSTRACT

·         TABLES AND FIGURES (See Section on Statistical Tables and Figures for exposition)

·         ANNUAL PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC COST OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION

·         ANNUAL UNNECESSARY MEDICAL EVENTS STATISTICS

·         TEN-YEAR DEATH RATES FOR MEDICAL INTERVENTION

·         TEN-YEAR STATISTICS FOR UNNECESSARY INTERVENTION

·         INTRODUCTION

o        Is American Medicine Working?

o        Under-reporting of Iatrogenic Events

o        Correcting a Compromised System

o        Medical Ethics and Conflict of Interest in Scientific Medicine

·         THE FIRST IATROGENIC STUDY

·         ONLY A FRACTION OF MEDICAL ERRORS ARE REPORTED

·         PUBLIC SUGGESTIONS ON IATROGENESIS

·         DRUG IATROGENESIS

o        Medication Errors

o        Recent Adverse Drug Reactions

o        Medicating Our Feelings

o        Television Diagnosis

o        How Do We Know Drugs Are Safe?

o        Specific Drug Iatrogenesis: Antibiotics

o        The Problem with Antibiotics: They are Anti-Life

o        Drugs Pollute Our Water Supply

o        Specific Drug Iatrogenesis: NSAIDs

o        Specific Drug Iatrogenesis: Cancer Chemotherapy

o        Drug Companies Fined

·         UNNECESSARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES

·         MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES

·         WHY AREN'T MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES STUDIED?

·         SURGICAL ERRORS FINALLY REPORTED

·         UNNECESSARY X-RAYS

·         UNNECESSARY HOSPITALIZATION

·         WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE IN MEDICINE

o        Cesarean Section

·         NEVER ENOUGH STUDIES

·         OVERVIEW OF STATISTICAL TABLES AND FIGURES

o        Adverse Drug Reaction

o         Bedsores

o         Malnutrition in Nursing Homes

o         Nosocomial Infections

o        Outpatient Iatrogenesis

o        Unnecessary Surgeries

·         IT'S A GLOBAL ISSUE

·         HEALTH INSURANCE

o        Insurance Fraud

·         WAREHOUSING OUR ELDERS

o        Important Statistics about Nursing Homes

o        Over-medicating Seniors

·         WHAT REMAINS TO BE UNCOVERED

·         CONCLUSION

·         REFERENCES