Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn

However, in poorer hospitals were used to the old model - the bath loosely with adjacent metal lids. Financially secure medical centres often did children blind just because they had the best equipment - the most expensive and modern plastic incubators, which all supplied the oxygen required to act for the child. In a year or two it has been proven that the cause of retrolental fibroplasia was a high concentration of oxygen brought into the incubators. And I believed them when they said that the doctors in less equipped hospital simply could not make a correct diagnosis. I asked their teachers to explain this phenomenon. At the same time a few miles away, in a large, but less 'advanced' hospital, the disease - retrolateral fibroplasia were less than ten percent of prematurity. Although the guard had something - equipped with the latest technology offices to premature complete or partial loss of vision was noted almost ninety percent of infants with low birth weight. I must confess that showed no suspiciousness in relation to oxygen therapy in premature infants. Who could have suspected that twenty years later we find cancer of the vagina and abnormalities of the genital organs in children whose mothers took DES during pregnancy? When I was in medical school, did not deeply delve into conducted by the hormone DES (diethylstilbestrol), because I believed.

The purpose of my book is to make you heretics.

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Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn