iatrogenic


a condition induced internally by a pract-tioner, not from external factors. something which is created by ourselves, a contractor, or an internal service organization, making things worse instead of helping or making more efficient. something that’s done internally, supposedly within span of control and with a common mission, that works against a solution instead of towards it. the term is co-opted from medicine, where it means a condition induced by a physician.
the outage was iatrogenic in that it was nothing external to the company. the it department itself caused it by not duplicating existing parameters when it replaced the firewall.

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