I don't think your analogy fits very well. Trauma happens outside the medical system, trauma surgeons attempt to patch people up. 'Iatrogenesis' refers to condi

I don't think your analogy fits very well. Trauma happens outside the medical system, trauma surgeons attempt to patch people up. 'Iatrogenesis' refers to conditions that are caused or worsened by medical interventions. Barotrauma is the term that describes the mechanism through which ventilation damages lungs. Ventilators were studied scientifically and found to not help with pneumonia. After posting my blog post I figured out specifically how the antidote for oxygen poisoning got memory-holed in 1955. There was a little protest in 1959 about how the New Science didn't work very well for carbon monoxide poisoning. My post did cover the studies in the early 2000's confirming the validity of the Old Science.