iatrogenic

Adjective

iatrogenic (comparative more iatrogenic, superlative most iatrogenic)

1. (injury, or other adverse outcome) Induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.
   • Another group argues that the diagnosis is being overused and that many of the diagnosed cases are iatrogenic, or unintentionally shaped or caused by the practitioner2003, Michael L. Raulin, Abnormal Psychology, Pearson Education, Inc., page 494
   • These medicines addicted, sickened, or killed outright; they also could trigger chemical pneumonitis, or progressive lung injury, if inhaled during a bout of iatrogenic, or physician–triggered, vomiting.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 42