Associations to the word «Iatrogenic»

Wiktionary

IATROGENIC, adjective. (medicine) (of a disease, injury, or other bad outcome) Induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.

Dictionary definition

IATROGENIC, adjective. Induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne