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iatrogenic 

A condition induced internally by a practitioner, not from external factors. Something which is created by ourselves, a contractor, or an internal service organization, making things worse instead of helping or making more efficient. Something that's done internally, supposedly within span of control and with a common mission, that works against a solution instead of towards it. The term is co-opted from medicine, where it means a condition induced by a physician.
The outage was iatrogenic in that it was nothing external to the company. The IT department itself caused it by not duplicating existing parameters when it replaced the firewall.
iatrogenic by Hot.East October 14, 2011
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iatodwatdnagtgruots 

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e-iatrogenesis 

patient harm caused at least in part by the application of health information technology
Some e-iatrogenic events (or those events resulting from e-iatrogenesis) will represent the electronic version of "traditional" medical errors, such as a patient receiving the wrong drug dosage due to a human click-error.
e-iatrogenesis by dean sittig January 10, 2008

iatronudia 

A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to medical staff and doctors.
My friend, driven by her iatronudia, pretended that she was sick so that she could disrobe in front of her doctor.
iatronudia by alteredcarbon58 January 29, 2009

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