Quack Word #20: ‘Iatrogenic’

http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/07/quack-word-20-iatrogenic.html
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PainSci notes

“Iatrogenic illness,” or medically induced harm, covers the concept of harm having been done by the healer. In 2000, a presidential task force labelled medical errors a “national problem of epidemic proportions.” There are many technically correct and hair-raising stats about just how dangerous medicine can be — but the term and the stats are also often badly abused for ideological reasons. This article does a good job of putting it all in perspective.

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