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In his 1974 book and accompanying article<\/a> with the shared title of \u201cMedical Nemesis,\u201d philosopher and theologian Ivan Illich<\/a> boldly asserted that medical professional practice and related health policies, which he characterized as \u201cboth industry and religion,\u201d had become \u201ca major threat to health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading medical figures such as Richard Smith, a long-time medical journal editor and critic of fraudulent health research<\/a>, later credited Illich with \u201cremarkable\u201d prescience<\/a> about iatrogenesis<\/a> \u2014 the cover term for ailments \u201cwhere doctors, drugs, diagnostics, hospitals, and other medical institutions act as \u2026 \u2018sickening agents.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Already by 1999, the Institute of Medicine had flagged<\/a> medical error as being in \u201cthe top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then in 2000, Johns Hopkins public health expert Dr. Barbara Starfield got more specific, fingering iatrogenesis as America\u2019s third leading cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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