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The word " iatrogenic" means physician-induced.
"In 1988 the Government Accounting Office did a study which showed that prescription
drugs killed as many as 144,000 that year; that's 384 people dying everyday of
the side effects of prescription medications-seven times more people than die
from the use of street drugs." (The Terrain is Everything, by Susan Stockton)
The number has increased dramatically since that year.