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Iatrogenesis, or harm from medical treatment, is examined, focusing on common iatrogenic diseases in pediatric surgery. Addressing this requires collaboration between clinicians and pathologists to resolve terminological and statistical issues.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Surgery
- Medical Complications
- Pathology
Abstract:
The author considers iatrogenesis as a phenomenon, determines therapeutic manipulations responsible for iatrogenic complications, indicates the commonest iatrogenic diseases relevant to children's surgery, analyzes psychogenic and somatogenic iatrogenic diseases. The problem involving a number of unresolved terminological and statistical problems assumes ever greater importance. It can be managed only with mutual attempts of the clinicians and pathologists.