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Medically Caused Disease - 
"Iatrogenic"

Iatorgenic means adverse effects or complications caused by or resulting from medical  treatment or advice.  

iatrogenic /iat·ro·gen·ic/ (i-ă´tro-jen´ik) literally, brought forth by a healer, resulting from the activity of physicians; said of any adverse condition in a patient resulting from treatment by a physician or surgeon.

Examples of this is:

• complications from surgery
  

• illness or death after injection of an inappropriate solution or of an appropriate solution in an inappropriate manner
  

• a disorder induced by the treatment itself such as neuropathy (or nerve damage) caused by chemotherapy and/or radiation, and other conditions such as nausea, anemia, etc,
  

• drug interactions - the doctor and pharmacist fails to check for all medications a patient is taking and prescribe new ones that interact or decrease the intended therapeutic effect
  

• antibiotic resistance to bacteria caused by over prescribing antibiotics.  

Here is an article that shows how this works

Are Most Diseases Caused By The Medical System?

http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/flashback-are-most-diseases-caused-by-the-medical-system/ 

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