Does more healthcare create better outcomes? In other words, do more medications, tests and interventions necessarily result in healthier patients?
It turns out more care is, all too often, unnecessary care.
Does more healthcare create better outcomes? In other words, do more medications, tests and interventions necessarily result in healthier patients?
It turns out more care is, all too often, unnecessary care.
Notre système de santé est encore largement organisé autour des soins actifs (les soins d’urgence) et de « l’impératif thérapeutique », qui consiste à « réparer », lorsqu’une personne est malade, tout ce qu’on peut.
Our healthcare system remains focused on acute – emergency — care and the “therapeutic imperative” to fix everything we can fix when a patient is ill. But when someone is approaching the end of life, this approach may no longer be what the patient and their families need or want most.
Does more healthcare create better outcomes? In other words, do more medications, tests and interventions necessarily result in healthier patients?
It turns out more care is, all too often, unnecessary care.
Est-ce une bonne idée d’entreprendre une expédition de chasse génétique pour savoir si on est « à risque » de développer une maladie particulière?
