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• s  induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)

• Criminal involvement in the marijuana business is an iatrogenic disease, and the forces who make their living enforcing our marijuana laws love it that way.
• Doctors seldom mention the fact that an illness can be iatrogenic, i.
• When she recovers from the shock of the bill, she will find the original ailment still there plus a few new ones (iatrogenic mechanical failure?).

News & Articles

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• Obamacare’s Many Negative Side-Effects Should Surprise No One
  Government intervention causes iatrogenics — unintended negative consequences that hurt the very people they’re intended to help. Nowhere is this better exemplified than with Obamacare, a policy intended to bring insurance to all that has in effect taken it away from many. This paradox can be applied to other policy arenas as well.
  Dec. 26, 2013 - Ludwig von Mises Institute

Quotes

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• Peter G Peterson in Wall Street Journal
  I think there are real possibilities of iatrogenic effects if we start playing around with compensation,Peterson said, referring to the government's appointment of a pay czar.