--- title: "6 Iatrogenic Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Iatrogenic quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Iatrogenic sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/horace-reid-242884_cfs_in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ra_341240.jpg" --- > [“In July and August 2011 Simon Wessely ran a media campaign with the BBC and the broadsheets, successfully vilifying patients who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-reid/in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ran-a-media-campaign-with-the/) [Horace Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-reid/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/horace-reid-242884_cfs_in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ra_341240.jpg) > [“The story of Sybil is true, not fictional or fraudulent. One early commentator actually suggested that Sybil and Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-m-coons/the-story-of-sybil-is-true-not-fictional-or-fraudulent-one-early/) [Philip M. Coons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-m-coons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/philip-m-coons-113213_denial_the-story-of-sybil-is-true-not-fictional_636756.jpg) > [“Many doctors (and medical students) display uncertainty about whether or not CFS/ME is real…Patients with CFS/ME often experience suspicion by health professionals…The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charotte-blease/many-doctors-and-medical-students-display-uncertainty-about-whether/) [Charotte Blease](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charotte-blease/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/charotte-blease-125455_cfs_many-doctors-and-medical-students-displa_869671.jpg) > [ “Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. Dr \[Simon\] Wessely was speaking and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable lecture on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-hyde/several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-british-columbia-dr-simon/) [Byron Hyde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-hyde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/byron-hyde-181868_british-columbia_several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-bri_1382328.jpg) > [The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized …One out of every five patients admitted to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-illich/the-usdhew-calculates-that-7-of-all-patients-suffer-compensable/) [Ivan Illich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-illich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/ivan-illich-3546_acquire_the-usdhew-calculates-that-7-of-all-pati_2901192.png) > [The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-null/the-estimated-total-number-of-iatrogenic-deaths-that-is-deaths/) [Gary Null](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-null/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/gary-null-45227_cancer_the-estimated-total-number-of-iatrogenic_3184323.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/iatrogenic/#itemlist", "name": "Iatrogenic Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In July and August 2011 Simon Wessely ran a media campaign with the BBC and the broadsheets, successfully vilifying patients who had justifiably criticised his research. In his case, the marginalisation of ME patients was not ‘unintentional’. It was active and deliberate.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Horace Reid" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-reid/in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ran-a-media-campaign-with-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/horace-reid-242884_cfs_in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ra_341240.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/horace-reid-242884_cfs_in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ra_341240.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/horace-reid-242884_cfs_in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ra_341240.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In July and August 2011 Simon Wessely ran a media campaign with the BBC and the broadsheets, successfully…” — Horace Reid", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The story of Sybil is true, not fictional or fraudulent. One early commentator actually suggested that Sybil and Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, her treating psychiatrist, were a case of folie à deux, or shared psychosis (Victor, 1975). Having met Dr. Wilbur, listened to her presentations on multiple personality (now known as dissociative identity disorder), and read the many critiques and reviews of Sybil, I have concluded that Sybil was not iatrogenically created by Dr. Wilbur.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip M. Coons" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-m-coons/the-story-of-sybil-is-true-not-fictional-or-fraudulent-one-early/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/philip-m-coons-113213_denial_the-story-of-sybil-is-true-not-fictional_636756.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/philip-m-coons-113213_denial_the-story-of-sybil-is-true-not-fictional_636756.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/philip-m-coons-113213_denial_the-story-of-sybil-is-true-not-fictional_636756.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The story of Sybil is true, not fictional or fraudulent. One early commentator actually suggested that Sybil…” — Philip M. 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Paradoxically, these doctors were themselves conforming to another stereotype, as described by the speaker: ‘Knowledge-formation is also influenced by social and cultural factors. Such encounters have an inherent power differential; there is significant potential…to be unjust from an epistemic point of view.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charotte Blease" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charotte-blease/many-doctors-and-medical-students-display-uncertainty-about-whether/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/charotte-blease-125455_cfs_many-doctors-and-medical-students-displa_869671.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/charotte-blease-125455_cfs_many-doctors-and-medical-students-displa_869671.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/charotte-blease-125455_cfs_many-doctors-and-medical-students-displa_869671.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Many doctors (and medical students) display uncertainty about whether or not CFS/ME is real…Patients with…” — Charotte Blease", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. Dr [Simon] Wessely was speaking and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable lecture on M.E. and CFS. He had the hundreds of staff physicians laughing themselves silly over the invented griefs of the M.E. and CFS patients who according to Dr Wessely had no physical illness what so ever but a lot of misguided imagination. I was appalled at his sheer effectiveness, the amazing control he had over the minds of the staid physicians….His message was very clear and very simple. If I can paraphrase him: “M.E. and CFS are non-existent illnesses with no pathology what-so-ever. There is no reason why they all cannot return to work tomorrow. The next morning I left by car with my crew and arrived in Kelowna British Columbia that afternoon. We were staying at a patient’s house who had severe M.E. with dysautanomia and was for all purposes bed ridden or house bound most of the day. That morning she had received a phone call from her insurance company in Toronto. (Toronto is approximately 2742 miles from Vancouver). The insurance call was as follows and again I paraphrase: “Physicians at a University of British Columbia University have demonstrated that there is no pathological or physiological basis for M.E. or CFS. Your disability benefits have been stopped as of this month. You will have to pay back the funds we have sent you previously. We will contact you shortly with the exact amount you owe us”. That night I spoke to several patients or their spouses came up to me and told me they had received the same message. They were in understandable fear. What is important about this story is that at that meeting it was only Dr Wessely who was speaking out against M.E. and CFS and how … were the insurance companies in Toronto and elsewhere able to obtain this information and get back to the patients within a 24 hour period if Simon Wessely was not working for the insurance industry… I understand that it was also the insurance industry who paid for Dr Wessely’s trip to Vancouver.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Byron Hyde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-hyde/several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-british-columbia-dr-simon/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/byron-hyde-181868_british-columbia_several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-bri_1382328.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/byron-hyde-181868_british-columbia_several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-bri_1382328.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/byron-hyde-181868_british-columbia_several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-bri_1382328.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. 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Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ivan Illich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-illich/the-usdhew-calculates-that-7-of-all-patients-suffer-compensable/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/ivan-illich-3546_acquire_the-usdhew-calculates-that-7-of-all-pati_2901192.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/ivan-illich-3546_acquire_the-usdhew-calculates-that-7-of-all-pati_2901192.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/ivan-illich-3546_acquire_the-usdhew-calculates-that-7-of-all-pati_2901192.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized …One out of…” — Ivan Illich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936…while 553,251 died of cancer.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gary Null" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-null/the-estimated-total-number-of-iatrogenic-deaths-that-is-deaths/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/gary-null-45227_cancer_the-estimated-total-number-of-iatrogenic_3184323.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/gary-null-45227_cancer_the-estimated-total-number-of-iatrogenic_3184323.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/gary-null-45227_cancer_the-estimated-total-number-of-iatrogenic_3184323.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or…” — Gary Null", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/iatrogenic/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/iatrogenic/", "name": "Iatrogenic Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/iatrogenic/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/horace-reid-242884_cfs_in-july-and-august-2011-simon-wessely-ra_341240.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 6 Iatrogenic quotes by 6 authors. 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