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iatrogenic

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Definition

Harm caused by the treatment itself rather than by the original problem.

A medical term used in this corpus to describe harm produced by an intervention's intended mechanism; Fukui applies it to alignment training that simultaneously increases hit rate and false-alarm rate via a single criterion shift.

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    When No Agent Reads the Whole Document: A Universal Cliff in Multi-Agent Review