Unlike other causes of death, iatrogenic deaths are not accurately recorded by any government department. In Australia, for example, they are not listed in the most common cause of death published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Silence surrounding the term iatrogenesis is so effective that very few people know of its meaning. Let alone know what the decades long unannounced iatrogenic pandemic.
Few know that the term iatrogenesis refers to harm arising from medical treatment as distinct from the patient’s disorder. Iatro refers to physician: genesis refers to create. Iatrogenesis i as at least a leading cause of death. Numerous authors even refer to an iatrogenic epidemic. The main article has more information.