Every year in the United States, 225,000 people die iatrogenic deaths.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, iatrogenesis is the third largest cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer.
Iatrogenic. What is that word? Is it a disease, an accident, or something you get from smoking?
In fact iatrogenic means inadvertent death caused by a doctor or a hospital.
Why don’t they just say that? I guess it isn’t exactly in medicine’s best interests to put it in simple language that anybody can understand.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, iatrogenesis is the third largest cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer.
Iatrogenic. What is that word? Is it a disease, an accident, or something you get from smoking?
In fact iatrogenic means inadvertent death caused by a doctor or a hospital.
Why don’t they just say that? I guess it isn’t exactly in medicine’s best interests to put it in simple language that anybody can understand.