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"Type II Medical malpractice is doing something to patients very well that was not needed in the first place - and this kind of malpractice is, at present, a scourge. Doing violence to the ischemic myocardium or its blood vessels (vasculature) is a prime example. Furthermore, if any medical procedure has no ascertainable value for the patient, there is no acceptable risk - zero. Based on compelling and robust science, interventional cardiology and cardiovascular surgery for ischemic disease stemming from atherosclerosis fit the criteria for Type II Medical malpractice." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"There is a federal law that requires insurance companies to report settlements in malpractice cases to a federally funded data bank, but the public has little access to this information. Many hospitals have avoided even this reporting requirement by removing the doctor's name from the malpractice lawsuit. This secrecy is systemic, and it works to protect bad doctors and bad drugs, just as today's medical industry has shown it prefers. But there is one system, woefully underfunded and weak, that collects deaths and injuries from prescription drugs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Knowing what I know now, withholding information about these nutraceuticals would be tantamount to malpractice for me! It was a new beginning in my practice of medicine to be able to offer my patients complementary therapies that were safe and efficient—and that truly worked. Because nutrition had not been a part of the curriculum when I went to medical school, I made time to study it at great length; however, my physician colleagues were often skeptical that I knew what I was talking about." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The rising cost of malpractice insurance is causing a rebellion among doctors forced to pay the price for our litigious culture (and a few bad doctors) regardless of their own track record and commitment to quality care. Some, caught between the ever-present fears of litigation and the mounting costs of insurance, are shielding their assets and practicing without insurance, while others are leaving the practice of medicine altogether." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In addition to the growing imbalance between primary care doctors and specialists, the ever-present threat of malpractice litigation is also increasing the cost of American medical care. This threat may provide some protection to patients and allow recourse for substandard care, but the justice meted out is inconsistent. In a New York Times op-ed piece, Philip K." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In my experience, doctors rarely recommend procedures simply to make more money, but like most people, they like to use their special skills to help others; this creates a predisposition to want to use the latest tests, drugs, and procedures (not to mention defend themselves against the ever-present risk of a malpractice suit). As the saying goes, "When you have a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Doctors are aware of the risk of a malpractice suit lurking in every patient visit. Three-fifths of doctors in the United States admit that they do more diagnostic testing than is necessary because of the threat of litigation. And why not? The risk of ordering an extra test is nil, but the threat of a lawsuit because of a test not ordered is ever present—even when the likelihood of serious disease is very low and reasonable professional judgment would say the test was not necessary." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"If the judge allowed the evidence to be presented, the jury would then have to decide the merits of the testimony and the malpractice case. Barry Chafetz of the Chicago firm Corboy and Demetrio put together a team of several experts, including another psychiatrist and a pharmacist as well as M. N. G. Dukes, the international authority on drug monitoring. Dr. Dukes, known as Graham to his friends, testified on the specific issue of Halcion's capacity to cause suicide. Dr. Dukes is a former research manager in the pharmaceutical industry." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "After suggesting that Patrick bring a malpractice suit against the doctor, I referred him to Michael Mosher, a lawyer from the small town of Paris, Texas, who knows more about psychiatric drugs than most psychiatrists. The multiple psychiatric drugs involved in this case would test even Mosher's broad expertise. Attorney Mosher contacted local Virginia lawyers to work with him and a lawsuit was brought against the errant psychiatrist. Already Patrick's treating physician, I now became a consultant to his lawyers." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "A little less than two years after he was released from probation, Sam came for an evaluation in my office in regard to his malpractice suit against his psychiatrist that had been initiated some time earlier. Sam had all the stigmata of mild-to-moderate drug-induced dementia. His short-term memory was shot and he became easily confused. Unbeknownst to Sam, I had overheard him talking aloud to himself as he stood outside on the sidewalk trying to decide if he had found my office, and he sounded confused and distressed by the simple decision." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "In both the product-liability case against the manufacturer and the malpractice case against the doctor, the key issue was our ability to show that Halcion could cause suicide. If we could show the judge that Halcion had the potential to cause suicide, then we would then be allowed to argue that Halcion caused Martin's suicide. We would also have to show that the drug company and/or the doctor had done something negligent that caused Martin to kill himself." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Woman affected by HRT 1 Professional callousness, negligence and sheer incompetence are age-old forms of malpractice. With the transformation of the doctor from an artisan exercising a skill on personally known individuals into a technician applying scientific rules to classes of patients, malpractice acquired a new, anonymous, almost respectable status. Ivan Illich2 Since she has been on HRT, Ros has been changing, literally, she tells me, the minute I get into the car at the railway station where she has driven to meet me." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"These and other concerns relating to fiscal malpractice led the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the authoritative U.S. charity watchdog, to charge that the ACS is "more interested in accumulating wealth than saving lives". ACS allocations for what primary prevention activities it does engage in, primarily tobacco cessation programs and low-fat diets, are only about 0.1 percent of its budget of about $1 billion annually. NCI's budgetary allocation for prevention of occupational cancer, the most avoidable of all cancers and conservatively estimated to be responsible for about 10 percent of all U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"To treat cancer as if it were an illness without removing its underlying cause is nothing but malpractice, that is, "bad or wrong practice." It is now clear that such an approach has potentially fatal consequences for most cancer patients. Instead of reducing cancer occurrence and cancer mortality, the current medical approaches used to treat cancer actually contribute to increase both. Blaming the genes doesn't help. The genetic blueprint in a cancerous cell is no longer aligned with the original genetic blueprint (DNA) found in other normal cells of the body." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Interventional cardiology and cardiovascular surgery for atherosclerosis-associated ischemic disease is dripping Type II malpractice. I base this heresy on a compelling and robust science. Atherosclerosis is a process that leads to the formation of plaques that cause focal narrowing of coronary arteries and arteries elsewhere. It has a complex pathogenesis that involves lipid deposition in the vessel lining, a proliferative response of some cells in the vessel wall, and finally calcification. We all are developing, if not harboring, the resultant atherosclerotic plaques." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"They can be sued for malpractice if they fail to do so. But surveys of patients show that doctors often don't tell people about the dangers. The FDA should make it easier for doctors to go over the risks and benefits of a drug with their patients. The agency could require easy-to-read brochures for every drug on the market. Doctors could download the brochures from a government website and go over the facts with the patient before the prescription was written. The brochures could be written by the same national agency that independently evaluated drugs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In the 1960s and 1970s, the concept became a product of malpractice case law, with assistance from consumer and women's health care social movements. Litigants were winning lawsuits against physicians for surgical procedures that were deemed by a jury to be needless." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "There were risks, particularly bile duct injuries, malpractice claims for which increased fivefold.31 Enthusiasm for this surgery lowered the threshold for the operation, which resulted in a 22 % increase in the procedure. With more persons now having the surgery, the "total number of gall bladder related deaths in the population either stayed the same or, in some regions, increased by over 10%." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Indeed a 2003 study published in JAMA found double the false positives in the United States compared with Great Britain, a finding attributed to inferior mammogram training and fear of malpractice suits. "Very clear and specific standards and targets need to be set for interpretation of mammography," said the study's lead author. "Radiologists who perform outside acceptable ranges need to be told: 'that's not acceptable.'"37 We are not saying that a substantial proportion of physicians are incompetent." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "It's more than embarrassing. It's malpractice," countered Fran. There is a lesson here. In 1982, diuretics accounted for 56% of prescriptions written for blood pressure; ten years later, after ACE inhibitors were marketed, they accounted for 27%. A list of the best-selling drugs among senior citizens shows three ACE inhibitors, but no diuretics. We have replaced the inexpensive drug with an expensive one. Third, ACE inhibitors do have a limited effect in reducing the risk of heart failure and death from strokes." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Buchholz said he had simply been trying to tell his colleagues that good clinical practice required more than doling out drugs and avoiding malpractice suits. It was a good moral point to make, but it seemed to have gotten lost in the eagerness to take a different, more literal message from the story. This was a story, it seemed, that was too good not to be true.2 When I recounted the story of the two oncologists to a large class of Harvard undergraduates and asked how many of them believed it, virtually all the students raised their hands." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Now add to this intense pressure from within the pressure from without: an aging population with a growing sense of medical entitlement; a younger immigrant population with severe economic and communications problems; huge spikes in malpractice insurance and a seemingly endless swarm of malpractice attorneys, ready to pounce. Being a doctor isn't so sexy anymore. Now enter the pharma factor. In 2005, Dr." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"In 1976, Los Angeles County registered a sudden reduction of its death rate by eighteen percent when many medical doctors went on strike against the increase of health insurance premiums for malpractice. In a study by Dr. Milton Roemer from the University of California, Los Angeles, 17 of the largest hospitals in the county showed a total of 60 percent fewer operations during the period of the strike. When the doctors resumed work and medical activities went back to normal, death rates also returned to pre-strike levels. A similar event took place in Israel in 1973." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Joel Fuhrman, author of Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease, prophesied that the time might come when doctors would be accused of malpractice for not prescribing the substantially more effective nutritional approach for their patients. He is less optimistic in an interview with Shelly Keck-Borsits from her book Dying to Get Well, pointing out how well trodden is the path of least resistance, "The masses will continue to seek instant gratification via dangerous nutritional habits and drug seeking." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I can't begin to tell you how many people come to me who are on a maintenance dose of Prozac or Zoloft or some other kind of psychiatric drug and this should be deemed malpractice. No one has a deficiency of Prozac in the body. There is no such thing as a maintenance dose of those drugs. The doctors scare the patient into conforming to this maintenance dose thing." "Do you know of any other marketing tricks of the pharmaceutical industry? " Dr. Channing Bolick: "I saw one recently in a magazine that had cartoon characters shaped as eggs." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Doctor's offices and hospitals are seeing theif malpractice insurance rates doubled or even tripled, causing health care costs to rise. One clinic we spoke with saw their malpractice insurance go from $100,000 to $200,000 a year, despite having no claims filed against it. The insurance industry and the current administration say it is the result of frivolous lawsuits, but this is outright deception. Think tanks with a political agenda publish false research that distorts the facts to make their point." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Lenzer suspected that Powers had gone on to develop a bleed, and that she was now in danger of being sued for malpractice for failing to order a CT scan of his head. She was only partly right. After returning home, Powers felt fine for a few days, until he developed a headache. Doing as Lenzer instructed, he called his doctor, who sent him for a scan, but it showed no evidence of bleeding. When the headache persisted, Powers returned to the emergency room for a third time. This time, a CT scan revealed a subdural hematoma—a significant pool of blood pressing on his brain." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Any physician who foregoes offering screening is ripe for a malpractice suit. Prostate screening is a rite of passage. It makes sense. It is common sense. If only it worked. Case-Control Studies Case-control studies are generally considered the first crack at probing for an association between an exposure and a health effect, in this case between psa screening and metastatic prostate cancer (prostate cancer that had spread widely)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"ADR There is malpractice by doctors, hospitals, nurses, and pharmacy when it comes to drugs, without a doubt. Yes, an entirely desperate effort is going on so that reports about ADR (adverse drug reactions) are done more carefully. But consider this: a doctor who accidentally kills a patient with a drug will not always be very happy to report this, because HE is the one who administrated the drug. So the report system is inefficient, not to say that the interpretation of reports is often influenced by people who have a vested interest in a drug remaining on the market as long as possible." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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