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... iatrogenic disease in its various manifestations.47 In the most narrow sense , iatrogenic disease includes only illnesses that would not have come Ralph E. Spiekerman , " Re - evaluation of Therapy of Acute Myocardial Infarction ...
... iatrogenic disease in its various manifestations.47 In the most narrow sense , iatrogenic disease includes only illnesses that would not have come Ralph E. Spiekerman , " Re - evaluation of Therapy of Acute Myocardial Infarction ...
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... iatrogenic disease comprises all clinical conditions for which remedies , physicians , or hospitals are the pathogens , or " sickening " agents . I will call this plethora of therapeutic side - effects clinical iatrogenesis . They are ...
... iatrogenic disease comprises all clinical conditions for which remedies , physicians , or hospitals are the pathogens , or " sickening " agents . I will call this plethora of therapeutic side - effects clinical iatrogenesis . They are ...
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... iatrogenic disease , sometimes trivial , usually requiring special treatment , and in one case in thirty leading to death . Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy ; amazingly , one in ten comes from diagnostic ...
... iatrogenic disease , sometimes trivial , usually requiring special treatment , and in one case in thirty leading to death . Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy ; amazingly , one in ten comes from diagnostic ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
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