Of or pertaining to infectious diseases contracted through exposure to a medical treatment or facility or to medical complications caused by a physician's prescribed course of treatment.
Every episode of the popular series, House, MD is an entertaining study in the horrors of iatrogenia.
by Russell Clark December 7, 2006
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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.
by Hot.East October 14, 2011
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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.
by dean sittig January 10, 2008
Get the e-iatrogenesis mug.addiction caused by medical treatment (e.g., liberal use of opiate analgesics in a hospital setting or by a physician that leads to opiate addiction).
I went in for back surgery and they kept giving me morphine. Now that I was sent home they gave me a prescription for OxyContin. I just can't seem to stop taking them. Now my doctor says that I have iatrogenic addiction. WTF am I supposed to do now?
by Big Momma Stanley September 23, 2010
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