Exploitation of patient obsession

Surgeons continued to use injections of an enzyme, chymopapain, to dissolve ruptured discs, even after it was revealed that it probably aggravated the condition, because their patient preferred injections to surgery.

1. With the extensive increase in the range of health related products, whether pharmaceutical or advocated by the alternative health community, preoccupation with personal health can lead to debilitating psychological consequences. Some practitioners, especially of alternative cures, actively feed people's anxieties, without necessarily being able to focus on specific illnesses. Whereas practitioners of conventional medicine focusing on specific conditions, overlook the emotional, dietary and environmental causes which may subsequently engender others symptoms. Both approaches are distorted by a need to maximize the financial exploitation of the patient.

1. Unethical practice of health professionals

1. Overprescription of drugs
2. Malpractice in plastic surgery
3. Irrational conscientious refusal of medical intervention
4. Food fads

1. Unnecessary medical procedures
2. Unnecessary cosmetic surgery
3. Medical experimentation on pregnant women and foetuses
4. Polypharmacy

1. Inadequate evaluation of surgical procedures
2. False optimism about illness
3. Escaping reality through popular psychological frameworks

1. Unprofessional science
2. Scientific misconduct
3. Body integrity dysphoria

1. Informing about fraud
2. Expressing concerned with health
3. Exploiting patient obsession
4. Being fraudulent

1. Exploitation
2. Obsession
3. Fraud