Bad medicine from the uses of wrong procedures

by, Prof. Dr. Bardhyl ÇIPI

Abstract

Cases of bad medicine by using wrong procedures have been numerous due to lack of medical knowledge, despite the eforts of doctors to cure diseases. According to scholars David Wootton and Nathan Belofsky, these cases have been encountered since ancient times.Doctors, scientists, and thinkers who introduced wrong theories and involuntarily injured people during the treatment of their illness were not charlatans, but well-known doctors, the leading medical fgures of their time. At present, medicine has been introduced to the right path of its development, alleviating pain and curing many illnesses, which has made it possible to increase the life expectancy of humans. However, even in today’s and the most advanced medicine of the future, which are the direct inheritance of previous medicine, sometimes bad medicine cases by using the wrong procedures are encountered. In Albania since the 1990s, with its opening afer a long isolation, the possibility was created to apply world biomedical sciences achievements, but also the bad and forbidden medical practices of developed countries. Te author analyze a medicolegal case in Albania involving the misuse of cancer treatment with sodium bicarbonate from an Italian physician. It is necessary that relevant institutions, strengthen the control and legislation concerning the work of foreign doctors in Albania to prosecute these cases and avoid medical malpractice.