Iatrogenia

What is Iatrogenia?


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Of or pertaining to infectious diseases contracted through exposure to a medical treatment or facility or to medical complications caused by a physician's prescribed course of treatment.

Every episode of the popular series, House, MD is an entertaining study in the horrors of iatrogenia.

See managed care, vivisection, malpractice, house, md


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