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- noun medicine Any
adverse effect (orcomplication ) resulting frommedical treatment.
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In medicine, the term iatrogenesis refers to a condition in which symptoms or complications are themselves caused by attempted medical treatment or the conditions under which it is administered.
Iatrogenesis 2008
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In medicine, the term iatrogenesis refers to a condition in which symptoms or complications are themselves caused by attempted medical treatment or the conditions under which it is administered.
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Like most observers of health and medicine today, homeopaths do not believe that there is simply one reason for the increase in mental illness, though many homeopaths assert that iatrogenesis (doctor-induced disease) plays a much greater role than is commonly recognized.
Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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Like most observers of health and medicine today, homeopaths do not believe that there is simply one reason for the increase in mental illness, though many homeopaths assert that iatrogenesis (doctor-induced disease) plays a much greater role than is commonly recognized.
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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Therefore, it also seeks to reduce the unacknowledged iatrogenesis that results from inappropriately over-utilized treatments such as immunosuppressive steroids, psychotropic drugs, antibiotics, and unnecessary surgeries.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III) 2010
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We specifically take iatrogenesis to include physician error but also negligence, adverse effects and interactions of drugs, and hospital-acquired infections.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Addendum To 'The Mythology Of Science-Based Medicine' 2010
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Therefore, it also seeks to reduce the unacknowledged iatrogenesis that results from inappropriately over-utilized treatments such as immunosuppressive steroids, psychotropic drugs, antibiotics, and unnecessary surgeries.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III) 2010
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Therefore, it also seeks to reduce the unacknowledged iatrogenesis that results from inappropriately over-utilized treatments such as immunosuppressive steroids, psychotropic drugs, antibiotics, and unnecessary surgeries.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III) 2010
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They are more likely to experience inconvenience, iatrogenesis (doctor-caused illness), discomfort, and prolonged symptoms.
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Technology is driven by scarcity, and scarcity by pillage, and new technology to correct for the iatrogenesis of the last technology.
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