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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

In 2000, JAMA reported the US yearly estimated iatrogenic deaths: 12,000 caused by unnecessary surgeries; 27,000 caused by medication errors and other errors in hospitals; 80,000 hospital/healthcare facility acquired infections; and 106,000 “non-error” adverse effects of medication.

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

Mad in America

They would say that, despite all of the advancements of medical technology, the involuntarily declared “schizophrenic” could not yet achieve competence despite their best efforts “treating” him. One may say that cure is often less profitable than permanent customers in all of healthcare, which is of course an issue in itself.