0 (of a disease or problem) caused by medical treatment or by a doctor:
Iatrogenic infections are responsible for thousands of deaths among hospital patients each year.
Minimally invasive spinal surgery reduces the risk of iatrogenic injury.
If a complication such as excessive bleeding arises during a biopsy procedure, the complication is iatrogenic.
Most Cushing’s syndrome cases are caused by steroid medications (iatrogenic).
They said the supposed long-term effects may be iatrogenic, meaning symptoms could be put into the mind of the patient after suggestion by a doctor.
Over 100,000 deaths occur in North America from iatrogenic disease, which means doctor- or drug-induced disease.
He claims that one in five patients in research hospitals get iatrogenic illnesses.
This is the first published case of iatrogenic pancreatitis.
Just as there are iatrogenic diseases, so there are legal problems caused by lawyers attempting law reform.
The metaphorical framework of battling disease links his concerns about euthanasia (which he opposes) and iatrogenic illness (which he thinks inadequately opposed).
Most convincing, however, are data from randomized intervention trials that show alarming iatrogenic effects for aggregating high-risk peers.
