Diseases of Medical Progress

The history of medicine is replete with examples of illness resulting from sound therpeuic endeavor. The emergence of a new syndrome while the patient is being treated for another condition has long been recognized in clinical medicine. However, in recent years the development of potent new therapeutic agents, improved surgical procedure and more efficient equipment has forced this facet of medicine into unprecedented prominence.This phenomenon may arise from a variety of causes. In the past, emphasis was placed on such things as product impurity, acute or chronic overdosage and ill defined individual sensitivity. In the diseases that are the . . .