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The term iatroepidemic describes a practice introduced into medicine without sound scientific evidence to establish its
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 12:56 pm
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The term iatroepidemic describes a practice introduced into medicine without sound scientific evidence to establish its effickey, Such practices result in systematic harm to large numbers of patients. Bloodletting during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, tonsillectomies in the 1950s, and the practice of psychosurgery have been identified as practices with little therapeutic value that actually harmed many patients. Can you think of other examples of introepidemies? When systematic medical error imposes costs on individuals whom do we blame? Should individual physicians be liable for injuries under these situations?