Did you know that iatrogenesis is the 3rd leading cause of death in America??Doctor-induced deaths.A shocking report on iatrogenesis revealed that up to 225,000 patients die annually as a result of iatrogenesis.Which raises eyebrows and questions on how safe are patients(we) in the hands of doctors.
According to www.medicinenet.com/script/main/mobileart.asp?articlekey=3886 ,Iatrogenic refers to any consequence of medical treatment or advice to a patient. It also refers to the illness that results from a misdiagnosis and in most cases leads to death.This is often practised by rogue hospitals that are only interested in money and in most cases often physicians often recommend surgery even for the not serious medical cases.The rogue hospitals use this as a cash cow.That's why i advise you to be wise and intelligent enough to know what's happening.
Want to know whether you have been a victim of iatrogenesis??Very easy. Some iatrogenic effects are clearly defined and are recognised with so much ease(For example) a complication following a surgical operation ( e.g.Instead of having a colonoscopy(colon surgery) ,a physician performs a thoracic surgery,now the complication that arises from that medicall error can make you recognize that you've been 'iatrogenised'.This can often lead to death as one becomes stressed up and suicidal thoughts flood the minds of most victims of this unfortunate act.
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The horror movie Sublime is an example of iatrogenesis.
The plot centers on the protagonist George Grieves , who checks into the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure
only to find horrors await him. Awakening from what was supposedly a simple colonoscopy , Grieves is told by hospital staff
that due to confusion arising from similar patient names he was mistakenly given a sympathectomy to cure sweaty palms.[Misdiagnosis alert]>[1st step in iatrogenesis]
As the days tick by Mr. Grieves' post-
operative experiences grow ever more bizarre until he finally realizes that he is caught inside a nightmare of his own creation and seems unable to escape or awaken back in
the real worldg. [The iatrogenic effect]
He understands that
something has gone wrong in his post-operative recovery which is keeping him trapped in this netherworld of manifestations
of all of his worst fears but he understands
neither what the problem is nor what, if anything, he can do to awaken from it.We eventually see his condition from his family's perspective and it appears hopeless.
The doctors explain that there was a
complication during the Sympathectomy which created an air bubble in his bloodstream that
eventually reached his brain and caused so much damage that he ended up in an apparently permanent vegetative state>[Complication arising from the misdiagnosis now manifesting]
He's been dead to the outside world for 10 months and his family is being pressured to remove all artificial means of life support .[Side effects of the medical error on the physician's part]
My only advice to you is to be vigilant while visiting hospital and be well informed of your disease so as to avoid being a victim of iatrogenesis or to avoid being iatrogenised as i like to say
MOVIE PLOT CREDIT:WIKIPEDIA
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