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Friday, February 11, 2005
Your word for the day is "Iatrogenic."
Iatrogenic (i-at-ro-jen-ic) adj. 1) Meaning "caused by a physician's treatment," usually used to describe an illness or condition. 2) What happens to you when you wake up at 4:30 in the morning, covered head-to-toe in an itchy rash, because you have been on a seven-day course of penicillin, and you did not previously know that you are allergic to penicillin.
Oy. So now I have a hacking cough and an itchy skin rash. When people see me on the street I grunt and say, "I have... the plague..." I have to get some amusement out of this damn condition. |
