Webster's 3rd International Dictionary (unabridged) 1981:
Iatrogenic: Induced by a physician - used chiefly of ailments
induced in a patient by autosuggestion based on a physician's words or
actions during examination.
Nosocomial: Originating or taking place in a hospital.
My interpretation has been that infections are nosocomial; other
conditions (sponge left after surgery, wrong leg amputated, etc) are
iatrogenic. I'd never considered "autosuggestion". Does anyone in
medicine have a different take?
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Mr. James W. Sandoz, Instructor, UMBC Dept of Biol Sciences,
1000 Hilltop Circle
Catonsville, MD 21250
voice: (410) 455-3497; fax: 455-3875; net: sandoz at umbc.edu
