Preventive medicine makes us miserable -- Godlee 330 (7497): 0 -- BMJ
Preventive medicine makes us miserable -- Godlee 330 (7497): 0 -- BMJ
(Recommended by Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja)
Because it is acted on healthy people, preventive medicine needs even stronger supporting evidence on benefits and harms than therapeutic interventions. And, for a new age, we need new adages. But will they have the same ring to them? Prevention may not be better than cure. A stitch in time may in some cases be unnecessary and even harmful. All better ideas to bmj.com.
Fiona Godlee, editor
(fgodlee@bmj.com)
(Recommended by Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja)
Because it is acted on healthy people, preventive medicine needs even stronger supporting evidence on benefits and harms than therapeutic interventions. And, for a new age, we need new adages. But will they have the same ring to them? Prevention may not be better than cure. A stitch in time may in some cases be unnecessary and even harmful. All better ideas to bmj.com.
Fiona Godlee, editor
(fgodlee@bmj.com)
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