The term “iatrogenic” comes from a combination of two Greek words: “iatros,” meaning physician or healer, and “genes,” meaning origin or source. Thus, iatrogenic refers to any condition, disease, or complication that arises as a result of medical treatment or advice. Essentially, it denotes an illness caused by the medical examination or treatment itself, not due to the underlying condition of the patient.

This term is used across the medical field to describe outcomes that are not necessarily the result of medical error, but rather are unforeseen or unavoidable consequences of the treatment process itself. It underscores the complex nature of medical care, where interventions aimed at healing can sometimes lead to new health issues.

iatrogenic: attempting to do something good will actually yield more bad.

Michael Saylor: They will attempt to do good and they will and they will do good imperfectly and they will create oftentimes more damage than the good they do. Most government policy will be iatrogenic: it will create more harm than good in the pursuit of it — but it is what it is. The secondary issue is they will unintentionally pay for it by expanding the currency supply

What is inflation?

We’d have inflation as long as we have government that is capable of pursuing any kind of policies that are in themselves inflationary, and generally they all are.

Michael Saylor: The significance of laser eyes is to focus on the thing that can make a difference. and if I look at the civilization, I would say half the problems in the civilization are due to the fact that our understanding of economics and money is defective — half, 50%. I don’t know, it’s $500 trillion dollars worth of problems? Like, money represents all the economic energy in the civilization, and it kind of equates to all the products, all the services, and all the assets that we have and we’re ever gonna have — so that’s half. The other half of the problems in the civilization are medical and military and political and philosophical and natural.