Iatrogenic

It is a published statistic that 56 people die in the U.S. each hour from iatrogenic causes [death caused inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment [pharmaceutical drug] or diagnostic procedure); that’s approximately 1,300 each day, 490,000 each year. Forget about cancer and heart disease. These are preventable deaths. In illness, about 15 percent of the time, especially in the treatment of trauma and life-threatening situations, your life depends upon the near-miracles of modern medicine. What you need to avoid like the plague is the marketing science form of medicine.