Is 行かされた a typo?


I have the following to translate for class.

> 病気になって  
>  頭と首が痛くて  
>  熱もあったので  
>  銀行の隣の病院に  
>  行かされた

This is what I have so far.

> I became sick and  
>  my head and neck hurt and  
>  I also had a fever so  
>  to the hospital next to the bank  
>  ???

I am not sure what `行かされた` means. I would understand `行かれた` (went, passive).
Is this simply a typo, or does it have some meaning I am not seeing?




It's a different way of saying the causative-passive 行かせられる, so it means that
the speaker was made to go to the hospital.

Note in an earlier version of this answer I confidently asserted that this is
a more colloquial example. A comment was posted to the contrary and, after
researching it more in depth, I was surprised to find I was indeed _wrong_ in
that regard. 行かされる has numerous entries on the corpus of modern written
Japanese, and appears to be totally fine in most, if not all contexts, and may
actually be considered the _standard_. Nevertheless it seems to be a debatable
concept. In fact, some of the confusion about whether it's 行かされる or 行かせられる
seems to come from Japanese people who see Japanese textbooks for foreigners
where we are generally taught that 行かせられる is the Right Way. I think this is
where my initial confidence and confusion came from (coupled with my general
ignorance of course). So **this confusion is probably a result of the way
Japanese is taught to foreigners,** or at least it doesn't do much to remedy
the situation. Apparently at least [some Japanese
educators](http://ameblo.jp/mekara-uroko/entry-10341599066.html) share in this
frustration.

Personally as someone who always struggles to say ～させられる I feel somewhat
liberated by this revelation.




It's a different way of saying the causative-passive 行かせられる, so it means that
the speaker was made to go to the hospital.

Note in an earlier version of this answer I confidently asserted that this is
a more colloquial example. A comment was posted to the contrary and, after
researching it more in depth, I was surprised to find I was indeed _wrong_ in
that regard. 行かされる has numerous entries on the corpus of modern written
Japanese, and appears to be totally fine in most, if not all contexts, and may
actually be considered the _standard_. Nevertheless it seems to be a debatable
concept. In fact, some of the confusion about whether it's 行かされる or 行かせられる
seems to come from Japanese people who see Japanese textbooks for foreigners
where we are generally taught that 行かせられる is the Right Way. I think this is
where my initial confidence and confusion came from (coupled with my general
ignorance of course). So **this confusion is probably a result of the way
Japanese is taught to foreigners,** or at least it doesn't do much to remedy
the situation. Apparently at least [some Japanese
educators](http://ameblo.jp/mekara-uroko/entry-10341599066.html) share in this
frustration.

Personally as someone who always struggles to say ～させられる I feel somewhat
liberated by this revelation.

