Today's blog contains only one posting - a remarkable presentation by Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown - made at a conference on "Avoiding Avoidable Care" held in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week. It is well worth reading.
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Dr. Bernard Lown’s Personal Blog
Social Responsibility of Physicians
Presented at the
Conference on Avoidable Care
April 26, 2012
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Introduction
Ever since starting clinical practice 62 years ago I have looked forward to this conference. Mercifully, good fortune and good genes enable me to attend. From my earliest days in medicine I have struggled against the prevailing model of healthcare. My opposition in part was provoked by the growing prevalence of overtreatment. Resort to excessive interventions seemed to be the illegitimate child of technology in the age of market medicine. If more than a half century ago overtreatment was at a trickle pace, it is now at flood tide
Ever since starting clinical practice 62 years ago I have looked forward to this conference. Mercifully, good fortune and good genes enable me to attend. From my earliest days in medicine I have struggled against the prevailing model of healthcare. My opposition in part was provoked by the growing prevalence of overtreatment. Resort to excessive interventions seemed to be the illegitimate child of technology in the age of market medicine. If more than a half century ago overtreatment was at a trickle pace, it is now at flood tide
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