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"The standard approach of suppressing infection and its resultant fever among hospital patients is medical malpractice and stands responsible for the loss of millions of lives that could easily have been saved by letting nature do its job. Germs Don't Cause Cancer The germs involved in an infection become active and infectious only when physical impurities and waste matter have gathered or tissue damage has already occurred. This is true whether they are of a bacterial or viral origin and whether they are generated within the body or introduced from the external environment." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Once we have an expanded living will, we can safely approach the medical establishment with a complaint of chest pain knowing our sage physician will stand between Type II medical malpractice and us. If the pain is awful, meet this sage physician in the emergency room. The standard management of an acute myocardial infarction in the United States is dripping as much Type II Medical Practice as the approach to angina." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "The national health-insurance schemes of other resource-advantaged countries cost a quarter of what we spend on those who are insured, have a third of our "overhead" or less, and eschew much of the Type II medical malpractice that I decry in this chapter and many others. Survival statistics in all advanced countries exceed ours; their citizenry enjoys more years of high-quality life. Physicians in these other countries can be heard bemoaning the fact that they are less wealthy than the American interventionalists (though not less wealthy than so-called "cognitive" physicians)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "Type II medical malpractice is a scourge. Doing violence to the ischemic myocardium or its vasculature is a prime example. Furthermore, if any procedure doesn't work, there is no acceptable risk. 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." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Guidelines also provide benchmarks by which the quality of a doctor's care can be evaluated, and (always lurking in the background of a doctor's thoughts) they are admissible as evidence of the accepted standards of care in medical malpractice cases. A study published in JAMA in 1999 evaluating the quality of the guidelines showed, ironically, that they often fall short of established standards." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Nonetheless, the current medical malpractice system consistently distorts our medical care. 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.)

"The most prevalent Type I medical malpractice case in the United States seeks remedy for a false-negative reading of a mammogram. I am aware of one prominent senior mammographer who informed a sixty-year-old patient that he would feel compelled to recommend biopsies every year given the radiological appearance of her breast tissue. Rather than choose to eschew mammography, she chose bilateral simple mastectomies (no cancer was found). The false-positive rate escalated, so that by the 1990s over a third of women in screening programs had been faced with false-positive results." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"It is an unfortunate fact today that, in Western societies, the number of pills, potions and prescriptions being dispensed is spiralling every year as orthodox practitioners worry about being sued for medical malpractice if they do not prescribe something—anything—when a patient visits them. The result is a lot of buttons being pressed! It is also true that asthmatics often rely heavily on their spray or puffer, using it as a psychological crutch rather than as a non-preferred treatment. It is not the use of medication which causes concern, but over-reliance on this form of treatment." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Otherwise, prescribing Ritalin constitutes unarguable medical malpractice. "21 In February 2005 the results of another study on methylphenidate (addressing chromosome damage) was reported by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The Texas researchers drew and tested blood from 12 children diagnosed with ADHD prior to methylphenidate treatment." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"For these reasons, anti-aging rHGH medication, compounded by failure to explicitly disclose its grave risks, constitutes medical malpractice. There are also growing concerns on possible risks from the use of HGH nutritional supplements, including oral sprays. It should, however, be recognized that HGH absorption from the mouth and gut is unlikely to be significant, in striking contrast to complete absorption from injectable medication. Nevertheless, nutritional rHGH supplements should be phased out until it can be shown that they do not elevate blood IGF-1 levels." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Also, trial lawyers are facing even larger "tort reform" threats to the actual types of lawsuits they file, such as medical malpractice. But such reality-based reasoning cannot deter a trade-group lobbyist. As I sat listening to Riehl proudly rattle off shield-law victories state by state, the real motivation for his group's intense interest dawned on me: self-survival. Because industry trade associations are so costly to join, they must continuously justify their existence to potential and ongoing members." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Jenny (or more accurately, her attorney) also knows that if her doctor were to withhold these services, he or she would be committing medical malpractice; if PrimeCare withholds payment, it is compelling de facto medical malpractice. And the cornerstone of medical malpractice law, since 1975, has been the doctrine that there exists across the United States a national standard of care. Although enormous variations in care exist around the country, the courts hold physicians to a clinical standard that is fully a U.S.-based standard." - J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.)

"In any setting, the failure to provide you, the parent or guardian, with all of the material information about the "condition" or "treatment" being suggested or encouraged is a violation of your informed consent rights, which were born of the World War Two war crimes trials at Nuremberg, and is tantamount to medical malpractice. As a result of Nuremberg, medical experimentation on prisoners of war was outlawed." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"If meditation were a drug, it would be considered medical malpractice for a physician to fail to prescribe it. The results of studies of prayer are equally impressive.16 A single brief period of spiritual and emotional centering in the morning positively affects our immune system all day long17 and sets us up with a healthier and more peaceful emotional baseline. To cope with sudden stresses that disrupt our baseline, we need an additional technique drawn from Energy Psychology to quickly discharge the disturbed emotional energy and allow us to return to a peaceful, relaxed state." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Otherwise, prescribing Ritalin constitutes unarguable medical malpractice (http://www.ritalindeath.com/Ritalin-Cancer.htm). Even though the results of the above study was published in 1995, (12 years ago, as of this publishing), the FDA still insists that "the drug is safe"! And although it seems as if a lot of tax payers' money and effort was invested to prove a drug such as Ritalin?definitely poses a serious risk, their only response is to include a warning in the drug's package insert, which is normally discarded along with the fine print that few ever read." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"In any sane world, prescribing potentially deadly drugs to individuals free of heart disease, simply because they failed to meet some arbitrary level of serum cholesterol, would be considered nothing less than a cut-and-shut case of medical malpractice. Sadly, Mrs Calabio's family is hardly alone in grieving the needless, statin-induced loss of a loved one. In August 2001, pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG was forced to withdraw Baycol (cerivastatin) from the market, after at least fifty-two deaths had been linked to the drug." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Compared with the United States, the national health insurance schemes of other advanced countries cost a quarter of what Americans spend on the insured, have a third or less of overhead expenses, and eschew much of the Type II medical malpractice I decry in several chapters in this book. Yet survival statistics in all advanced countries exceed those in the United States, and their citizenry enjoys more years of high-quality life." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) "The standard management of an acute myocardial infarction in the United States, as with angina, veers towards Type II medical malpractice. However, if you have a myocardial infarction, you are no longer a candidate to be the Last Well Person - and you fall beyond the boundaries for this book. So, let's take the case of less severe chest pain. We should not hesitate to approach our wise physician with such a complaint. Describe the pain. Explain that it is too severe, or atypical, or pervasive for us to cope with on our own." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) "The Last Well Person is, in essence, a treatise on medicalization and what I call "Type II Medical Malpractice" - the act of doing something to you very well that you did not need in the first place. Recognizing the power of these medical phenomena in the current system is a prerequisite to refashioning it to your benefit and to negotiating your own medical care. It is unconscionable that the system has evolved in a way that challenges your discernment. The system must be changed, but the stakes are high and many of the stakeholders are opposed to changes that do not benefit themselves." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) "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. Atherosclerosis is a process that leads to the formation of plaques in the blood vessels. This build-up causes localized narrowing of coronary and other arteries, or, as the commonly used term describes it, "hardening of the arteries." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"Extrapolated nationwide, this could mean medical malpractice injures 1.4 million Americans, and routinely kills 186,000 persons in ayear. A study is available from the Washington Council For Responsible Nutrition that reports women taking Vitamin E overage 50 and Folic acid andZinc during childbearing years would save Medicare 11 billion dollars, and overall reduce birth defects and coronary heart disease hospital expenses of 20 billion dollars per year." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"Epstein, R. Medical malpractice: The case for contract. American Bar Foundation Resources Journal, 1976, 1, 87. Epstein, R. Contracting out of the medical malpractice crisis. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Winter 1977, 228. Green, J. Responsibility for health. Journal of Holistic Health, 1976, 1, 76. The People of the State of California vs. Dana Ullman, March 9, 1977. Municipal Court Oakland-Piedmont Judicial District. County of Alameda, No. 98158. Suggestions for Further Reading "Holistic Practitioners Unite—It's time to learn to fly" Somatics, V. 3 N." - Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss, The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age (Get the book.)

"Vetere said, "I would have committed an act of medical malpractice." THE WRONG JOBS Nearly one of every three dollars now spent on health care goes for administration, from processing the voluminous paperwork of billing to enforcing the length-of-stay guidelines that brought grief to Musette Batas. A generation after introducing business practices to health care, the United States spends a higher percentage of its health care dollars just to administer the system than any other country." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "But Pennsylvania has one of the country's worst records for weeding out incompetent doctors—a failure that raises quality-of-care issues and has contributed to the growth of medical malpractice lawsuits in the state. To escape the death penalty, Cullen agreed in April 2004 to plead guilty to thirteen murders in Somerset County, New Jersey, and to work with law-enforcement authorities in other New Jersey and Pennsylvania counties to identify all the people he killed. Three more were added to the list by June." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"The researchers found that the military never reported any doctor for medical malpractice to a database created by Congress in 1990 to protect the public from poorly performing doctors. Was it a matter of the military doctors having a good record so there were no reports to make? Not hardly. The medical facilities that the US military filed zero reports for were the targets of over 1,000 medical malpractice claims by patients as well as the families of several patients who had died." - Duncan Long, Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency (Get the book.)

"Lee states, "Prescribing a progestin to a menopausal woman should be considered medical malpractice." Yet, synthetic progestins, are the progesterone-like hormones in all birth control pills as well as in conventional hormone replacement therapy for menopause! The fact that synthetic hormones are not exactly the same in molecular structure as those hormones naturally found in our bodies turns out to be a huge distinction. In the world of chemical molecules, changing just one atom can sometimes turn a molecule into a completely different thing—such as a completely different hormone." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

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