Fourteen percent of these injuries were fatal. The hideous fact is that all across this country, MDs are practicing a system of health care that results in a panoply of horrors, and the word iatrogenic associated with a disease or injury says it all. This demonstrates that the American public is being seriously and negatively impacted by a whole host of conditions, either caused by medical intervention directly, or are caused as a result of the medical interventions using the allopathic protocol of treatment. One such problem doctors of chiropractic may encounter is the adhesive arachnoiditis syndrome . Adhesive arachnoiditis is thought by many to result from chemical or physical insult to the arachnoid layer, including the insults involving introduction of foreign substances into the subarachnoid space.
Nosocomial infections are hospital-acquired infections.
Dr. Robert N. Butler expressed, in a Geriatrics editorial, that nosocomial infections victimize one out of every 20 patients with a new infection in the hospital. Viruses, bacteria, protozoa, or fungi are usually the culprits. She also talks about how use of radiation to treat cancer and increase ones chances of getting radiation-induced cancer later on in life. In fact, after reading her short article, it is almost impossible to see a hospital as a hospitable and healing place. And the problems are not confined to the United States.