“... As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least to do no harm."

- Hippocrates Epidemics, Bk. I, Sect. XI

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Iatrogenic events, however inadvertent, change lives forever. These incidents are particularly egregious when the health care providers involved refuse to accept responsibility or acknowledge complicity. (On the advice of counsel, I’m sure.)

There are millions of doctor induced injuries other than those listed here – many far more serious and never reported. Patients who do report these events – to state medical disciplinary committees – often receive a letter saying, in effect, “Our investigation of this incident reveals no departure from approved medical practice. We consider this incident closed.”

A license to practice medicine, or dentistry, seems to provide immunity from the accountability and ethical standards which most of us try to observe.

Iatrogenic (defined)

Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be inadvertently caused by a physician or surgeon or by a medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic procedure.

The word "iatrogenic" comes from the Greek roots "iatros" meaning "the healer or physician" + "gennan" meaning "as a product of" = due to the doctor.

Found on Rate MDs at http://www.ratemds.com/social/?q=node/10309

The AMA and state medical boards have seen to it that information on physicians is highly restricted. The real information on doctors is kept in the National Practitioners' Data Bank, but the public has no access to it.

The majority of the services, like Healthgrades, publish information on physicians that you can obtain, for free, from state medical boards. But, just because a physician has no disciplinary action recorded on the state medical board website does not mean that there have been no complaints against him/her or that the physician is competent.

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