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{{WikipediaQuote
|URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
|title=Iatrogenesis
}}
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'''Iatrogenesis''' is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence.<ref name=":0">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iatrogenic
|title=Iatrogenic
|website=merriam-webster.com
|accessdate=2022-01-13
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|DOI=10.1016/B978-0-7020-4588-2.00056-5
|last=Barr
|first=John O.
|init=JO
|last2=Kauffman
|first2=Timothy L.
|init2=TL
|chapter=Iatrogenesis in older adults
|editors=Timothy L. Kauffman, Ron Scott, John O. Barr & Michael L. Moran
|title=A Comprehensive Guide to Geriatric Rehabilitation
|edition=3
|location=Edinburgh
|publisher=Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
|year=2014
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
|date=2014-12-11
|title=Intervention Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
|url=https://www.addictionhelper.com/advice/intervention-mistakes-avoid/
|accessdate=2021-02-03
|website=Addiction Helper
}}</ref> First used in this sense in 1924,<ref name=":0" /> the term was introduced to sociology in 1976 by Ivan Illich, alleging that industrialized societies impair quality of life by overmedicalizing life.<ref name=":1">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/iatrogenesis
|title=iatrogenesis
|publisher=A Dictionary of Sociology
|website=Encyclopedia.com
|date=2020-05-31
}}</ref> Iatrogenesis may thus include mental suffering via medical beliefs or a practitioner's statements.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{REFbook
|last=Kuhl
|first=David
|init=D
|title=What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life
|location=New York
|publisher=PublicAffairs
|year=2002
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfiLuC7a47sC&pg=PA55&dq=iatrogenic+suffering
|page=55
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|last=Lazarsfeld
|first=Paul F.
|init=PF
|chapter=Working with Merton
|editor=Lewis A. Cosar
|title=The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton
|location=New Brunswick, {{USSC|NJ}}
|publisher=Transaction Publishers
|year=2012
|REM=New York: [[Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich|Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]], 1975)
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ByFhcDveoK0C&q=iatrogenesis
|pages=328–9
}}</ref> Some iatrogenic events are obvious, like amputation of the wrong limb, whereas others, like drug interactions, can evade recognition. In a 2013 estimate, about 20 million negative effects from treatment had occurred globally.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
|first=Collaborators
|date=2015-08-22
|title=Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
|journal=Lancet
|volume=386
|issue=9995
|pages=743–800
|DOI=10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60692-4
|pubmedCID=4561509
|pubmedID=26063472
}}</ref> In 2013, an estimated 142,000 persons died from adverse effects of medical treatment, up from an estimated 94,000 in 1990.<ref name="GDB2013">{{REFjournal
|last=GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death
|first=Collaborators
|date=2014-12-17
|title=Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
|journal=Lancet
|volume=385
|issue=9963
|pages=117–71
|DOI=10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2
|pubmedCID=4340604
|pubmedID=25530442
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
'''Iatrogenic''' is a word applied to "any adverse condition in a patient resulting from treatment by a physician, nurse, or allied health professional."<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/iatrogenic