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To: NOW who wrote (260002)	9/11/2003 2:07:23 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<<Grace, you better check your facts.Not even close.>> Agree.

To: NOW who wrote (260002)	9/11/2003 2:33:16 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Not even close. Iatrogenic illness is a big problem, yes. I'm not talking about people who get ill because the doctor makes a mistake or the nurse isn't diligent, I'm talking about the complications that arise from being treated and it's fairly widely spread over huge numbers. How many people are given one drug to counter the side effects of another? How many people die from complications from surgery? Asthma medicine which has the effect of making subsequent attacks more severe, drugs which interfere with the body's natural ability to deal with a condition, antibiotics and antiseptics that produce resistant microbes, it goes on and on. Good grief, one only needs to read the contraindications on the drug label to see how widespread the problems that arise from treatment are. It amazes me how willingly people submit to drug therapy. The medical and drug establishment has a vested interest in keeping those numbers under-estimated. My mother-in-law's broken hip healed soon after the surgery but it took six months for her to get rid of the various diseases and problems she acquired in the hospital which came awfully close to killing her. These were complications of her treatment, not a direct consequence of her original problem. She spent five times as long in the hospital with that then she did with the broken hip.