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iatrogenic illness

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iatrogenic illness
Any complication related to diagnosis and treatment of disease, regardless of whether the condition occurs as a known risk of a procedure or through errors of omission or commission


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The Journal of the American Medical Association reported recently that iatrogenic illness (illness caused by medical errors or reactions to drugs and medical treatment) has become the third largest killer of Americans, exceeded only by heart disease and cancer.
Read learned medical journals and it is clear that the biggest single reason for health problems is iatrogenic illness, that is medically induced.
I confess there were times when I had to remind myself that it was the iatrogenic illness which was saving my life.
 
 
 
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