believe the significance of the use of the word is If we have
a word describing medical problems resulting from medical
treatment, there must be a frightening number of iatrogenic
complications. Someone who writes about word usage recently
remarked about the increasing number of obits listing cause
of death as 'complications resulting from cancer treatment. '
The Vietnamization of medical care: we had to kill the
patient in order to save him. Betsy In a message dated
1/12/01 9:50:25 AM,
rcentor@yahoo.com writes:
<< Iatrogenic - a complication caused by medical
treatment.
Context might help -
despite an initially smooth recovery from his appendectomy,
he became very ill due to an iatrogenic infection
the iatrogenic infection refers to an infection acquired
during hospitalization
I hope that is both accurate and helpful >>
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