“In medicine there is a term for the kind of illness that is caused by the intervention of doctors: iatrogenesis. You treat someone with a drug, and the side effects turn out to be worse than the disease. You do a minor operation, and the patient dies of complications. Iatrogenic illness is well-intentioned. No one is trying to harm the patient. But a doctor has no right to use the passive voice and speak of the patient who has been harmed.”
