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Causes and consequences of quack medicine in health care: a scoping review of global experience
Background
The field of health has been facing challenges with fraudulent practices and the prevalence of “quack medicine”. Many cases have given rise to this issue. Therefore, this study aims to comprehensively investigate and categorize the causes and consequences of quack medicine in the healthcare.
Methods
A scoping review, using the 5 stages of Arksey and O’Malley’s framework, was conducted to retrieve and analyze the literature. International databases including the PubMed, Scopus, Embase and Web of Science and also national Iranian databases were searched to find peer reviewed published literature in English and Persian languages. Grey literature was also included. Meta-Synthesis was applied to analyze the findings through an inductive approach.
Results
Out of 3794 initially identified studies, 30 were selected for this study. Based on the findings of this research, the causes of quackery in the health were divided into six categories: political, economic, socio-cultural, technical-organizational, legal and psychological. Additionally, the consequences of this issue were classified into three categories: health, economic and social. Economic and social factors were found to have a more significant impact on the prevalence of quackery in the health sector. Legal and technical-organizational factors played a crucial role in facilitating fraudulent practices, resulting in severe health consequences.
Conclusion
It is evident that governing bodies and health systems must prioritize addressing economic and social factors in combating quackery in the health sector. Special attention should be paid to the issue of cultural development and community education to strengthen the mechanisms that lead to the society access to standard affordable services. Efforts should be made also to improve the efficiency of legislation, implementation and evaluation systems to effectively tackle this issue.
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Former journal editor is found guilty of data fabrication
A former journal editor fabricated data in a research paper when he was working as a registrar at King's College Hospital in London, a medical practitioners tribunal has concluded. 1 Paul Grant, now a consultant diabetologist in Brighton, edited the British Journal of Diabetes from 2014 to 2016.
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Finger surgery for deafness: rethinking quackery in medical history
In 1923, American news dispatches announced that King Alfonso of Spain had summoned a famous New York osteopath to treat his 15-year-old son, Infante Don Jaime (1908-1975). Deaf and mute following a severe case of mastoiditis, Don Jaime was judged \"incurable\" after Spanish specialists unsuccessfully operated on him in 1912. According to court insiders, an osteopath took only 20 minutes to perform a bloodless and painless operation that miraculously cured the prince. Reporters deduced that one man fit the bill: Brooklyn-based Dr. Curtis H. Muncie (1887-1963), who happened to be sailing on the Majestic, which was bound for Europe, to promote his \"constructive bi-digital intra-aural\" technique, otherwise known as the \"Muncie Reconstruction Method\" or simply \"finger surgery.\" The technique required Muncie to insert his fingers through a patient's larynx to manipulate the eustachian tube and manually correct aural defects causing deafness. Allegedly, it had a 90% success rate in incurable cases. The popularity of finger surgery as a cure for deafness certainly reflected broader cultural expectations of normalcy and eugenics that required American citizens who were deaf to be godly, educated and civic minded.
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Quantum Fundamentalism and Theological Liberty
Quantum mechanics (QM) is astonishingly successful as a theoretical framework, underpinning countless scientific areas and providing the impetus behind entire technologies. Many scientists suspect that physical reality is fundamentally quantum in nature, even if we perceive little of this in our everyday human experience. This is the viewpoint of “quantum fundamentalism.” Yet, the conceptual implications of QM defy common sense, to such an extent that popular culture largely perceives of QM as a source of counterintuitive weirdness. At the same time, bestselling self-help manuals portray QM as a source of hidden healing power within, while spiritual readings invoke QM as a bridge to the divine, or as a source of theological analogies. Scientists often denounce these mystical approaches as “quantum quackery,” but I examine their serious side. I argue that, for quantum fundamentalism to function as a worldview, it should inform a sense of human purpose, something for which theological analysis is well equipped.
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The need to train uncertified rural practitioners in India
Uncertified rural practitioners (URPs) without formal medical qualification occupy an indispensable yet dangerous position in the rural health care system in India. The low cost, close proximity, and higher health hazards in rural areas along with the inability of established health-care setups to fulfill existing demands have favored the flourishing trade of URPs. Irrational and dangerous drug prescriptions, unauthorized interventions, improper waste disposal, and several cases of malpractice by URPs are serious threats to the exposed population. However, because of the practical compulsion and real-world necessity of their existence, URPs should be scientifically trained and sensitized to regulate, qualify, and integrate them as a part of the existing health care system in India.
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