Sorry to get personal. Shyam - are you the Shyam that I think you are? If so - it is a real pleasure to see you on here.
shiv (sastry1972) On Saturday 06 Jan 2007 9:03 am, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iatrogenic = "Oops, I fscked up." > > That would be one sardonic way to look at it. Iatrogenic literally > means physician-caused and nosocomial hospital-acquired. But a larger > segment of iatrogenic problems are unavoidable even if the physician is > perfect and medical knowledge is complete and exhaustive. Medical > tests, for example, can almost never be 100% accurate; most medical > tests will label a person wrongly with a small probability. Drugs, > surgery, and other treatments almost always have a small probability of > unwanted effects. Every visit to a physician or a hospital for a > medical problem carries with it a risk of getting > something "iatrogenic" even if the physician is perfect. > > Shyam
