01:920:210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Preferred Provider Organization, Chiropractic, 1918 Flu Pandemic
6 Oct 2016
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40% of doctor visits result in no organic diagnosis they don"t know what"s wrong with the patient, can be psychological problem, spiritual: myth that more medical care is always better, example: iatrogenic disease a. i. Where the treatments causes a new disease in addition to the old disease a. i. 1. 15% of people who go into hospital come out with new. Very few medical treatments have been evaluated for their effectiveness a. i. 2. a. Diseases that go away by themselves: diseases that modern medicine cannot cure (ex. Spanish flu epidemic don"t know why it went away: huge increase in average lifespan in the us, lifespan increased from age 40 to 77 in 20th century a. i. Not due to advances in medical science a. i. 1. Advanced not in ways that would lengthen lives of people a. ii. Mostly due to advances in nutrition and public health a. ii. 1. Clean water, clean air, clean food, during 20th century a. ii. 2. Don"t burn as much coal, less pollution a. ii. 3.
