There's an even broader class of iatrogenic illness (induced unintentionally by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) that we like to ignore but that responsible microbiologists have been trumpeting caution about for around 60 years with lots of deafness by for-profit hospitals and that's HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS like MRSA. In other words, as a physician, prescribing admission to a hospital where antibiotics were/are over-prescribed falls under the rubric of a prescribed therapy causing illness, often death. In 1985/86, I showed my freshman university biology students a video by an Australian microbiologist who described how the excessive use of antibiotics led to patients breathing out antibiotic dust which could be found on surfaces like windowsills and which selected for survival of the hardiest resistant bacteria (MRSA) making the hospital a hellhole of a place to go to die from bacterial sepsis un-treatable by any of the standard antibiotics of the era, except vancomycin, a drug with extreme kidney toxicity. Took another 15-20 years before the alarm reached the ears of hospital greedocracy, and the problem has still not been entirely dealt with to this day. Physicians still grotesquely over-prescribe antibiotics in hospital settings
There's an even broader class of iatrogenic illness (induced unintentionally by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) that we like to ignore but that responsible microbiologists have been trumpeting caution about for around 60 years with lots of deafness by for-profit hospitals and that's HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS like MRSA. In other words, as a physician, prescribing admission to a hospital where antibiotics were/are over-prescribed falls under the rubric of a prescribed therapy causing illness, often death. In 1985/86, I showed my freshman university biology students a video by an Australian microbiologist who described how the excessive use of antibiotics led to patients breathing out antibiotic dust which could be found on surfaces like windowsills and which selected for survival of the hardiest resistant bacteria (MRSA) making the hospital a hellhole of a place to go to die from bacterial sepsis un-treatable by any of the standard antibiotics of the era, except vancomycin, a drug with extreme kidney toxicity. Took another 15-20 years before the alarm reached the ears of hospital greedocracy, and the problem has still not been entirely dealt with to this day. Physicians still grotesquely over-prescribe antibiotics in hospital settings