{"id":2136,"date":"2019-04-24T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netzwerk-homoeopathie.info\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:09:46","slug":"faq-17-aber-die-medizin-macht-doch-auch-fehler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netzwerk-homoeopathie.info\/en\/faq-17-aber-die-medizin-macht-doch-auch-fehler\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ 17 – But failures also happen in medicine!"},"content":{"rendered":"Lesedauer \/ Reading Time:<\/span> 6<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

More generally, the errors of medicine do not automatically make homeopathy an effective procedure<\/h4>\n

\"\"It is undisputed that errors and grievances in medicine cause more damage than there are reported errors in pseudomedicine, and we have no doubts about that at any point. Nevertheless, it must be stated that medical errors are by no means as numerous as is often claimed – especially by proponents of pseudomedicine.<\/p>\n

Compared to the enormous number of annual doctor-patient contacts and treatments worldwide, the error rate is exceptionally small (no question: every error is one too many and regrettable!).<\/p>\n

The German Medical Association writes about the work of the expert commissions and arbitration boards of the regional medical associations:
\n“Mistakes happen, even in medicine. But the probability that you as a patient will be harmed by a treatment error is extremely low. In outpatient SHI-accredited medical care alone, more than one billion doctor-patient contacts occur every year. In hospitals, the number of treatment cases has increased by more than 2.5 million in the last ten years to almost 19.8 million per year. Measured against this total number of treatment cases, the number of errors found by the expert commissions and conciliation bodies, but also by other bodies, is in the per mille range.”
\nThe annual treatment error statistics for Germany can be viewed, for 2018 e.g. here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The errors of medicine are random errors: human failure, technical failure, concatenation of unfortunate circumstances, fate (fate is of course not a “mistake”). Human failure is attributable to the doctor, but not to “medicine” as such. However, it is our medicine itself that recognizes a mistake as such and it is the only institution that can recognize this at all. For every physician who makes a mistake, there is a medical expert who names the mistake!<\/p>\n

The mistakes of pseudomedicine – our subject here is only homeopathy, but the statement applies to all pseudomedical procedures – are, however, “system mistakes”.<\/p>\n

Mistakes in medicine should lead to improvements in medicine and not to the use of pseudomedicine. Even if the medicine does not deliver 100% success (where would there be such a thing?), its success rates are the highest we humans can currently get. All success rates of all pseudomedical procedures, on the other hand, are significantly lower than those of scientific medicine.<\/p>\n

Within medicine, there is a great awareness of the problem. This may not be the case with every single physician, but the entire major project of EbM (Evidence-based Medicine<\/a>), the establishment of IQWIG (German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care), the legal linking of the services of health insurance funds to the “state of the art of scientific knowledge” (with the exception of the German peculiarity of “special therapeutic directions” such as homeopathy) or initiatives such as Choosing Wisely<\/a> are expressions of the awareness of these grievances in normal medicine. Our health care system has many institutions and instruments at its disposal to track down such errors or even better not to let them arise in the first place: There is a licensing regulation for the licensing of physicians in the form of a statutory order, which is continuously checked for its suitability and adapted if a regulation does not prove its worth.<\/p>\n