Medical conservatives are not nihilists. We appreciate progress and laud scientific gains that have transformed once-deadly diseases, such as AIDS and many forms of cancer, into manageable chronic conditions. And in public health, we recognize that reducing exposure to tobacco smoke and removal of trans fats from the food supply have contributed to the secular decrease in cardiac event rates.2 Indeed, medical science has made this era a great time to live.
The medical conservative, however, recognizes that many developments promoted as medical advances offer, at best, marginal benefits. [...] On the flat part of the curve, additional spending, whether it be on a new drug, device, or diagnostic test, confers little benefit to individual patients or society.
I like it, but for medical conservatism to really take hold within the industry it needs to begin within academia. While med-school students are studying to become physicians they should have a...
I like it, but for medical conservatism to really take hold within the industry it needs to begin within academia. While med-school students are studying to become physicians they should have a guiding philosophy which teaches them not just to care for the body, but to recognize the individual benefits and risks they give each patient. I'll try and find the source on it later, but I remember reading that coming into contact with the United States health care system accounted for 10% of all deaths within the country. That's a disgusting figure and is indicative not of patient care, but of the brutal inefficiency of privatized health care and the pursuit of profits above all else.
I'd be interested in how they corrected that statistic for selection bias. It seems likely that coming in contact with the medical system indicates some kind of medical problem, and chances are...
I'd be interested in how they corrected that statistic for selection bias. It seems likely that coming in contact with the medical system indicates some kind of medical problem, and chances are that if you have one medical problem you have others, maybe more serious ones?
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I like it, but for medical conservatism to really take hold within the industry it needs to begin within academia. While med-school students are studying to become physicians they should have a guiding philosophy which teaches them not just to care for the body, but to recognize the individual benefits and risks they give each patient. I'll try and find the source on it later, but I remember reading that coming into contact with the United States health care system accounted for 10% of all deaths within the country. That's a disgusting figure and is indicative not of patient care, but of the brutal inefficiency of privatized health care and the pursuit of profits above all else.
I'd be interested in how they corrected that statistic for selection bias. It seems likely that coming in contact with the medical system indicates some kind of medical problem, and chances are that if you have one medical problem you have others, maybe more serious ones?
Iatrogenic causes are perhaps the third leading cause of death: https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/03/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death/