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December 31, 2012 5:45 pm
If you are a doctor and whatever be your specialty . . . if you do not read this article and understand the nuances probably you will not become a complete medical professional !
While BMJ struggles to propagate a vital truth , this banner on a Indian high way tempted the public to go for 64 slice CT scan . . .just like that !
Final message
Accruing medical knowledge and skills is only one aspect of medical profession. Applying it properly in our patient population is entirely different ball game . Let us be disease curers and not disease hunters . This is important because disease hunting is a dangerous game , where victims can be innocent bystanders. This is exactly same thing Hippocrates refered to as Primum non nocere 1000 years ago. It has required a huge statistical study to RE-INVENT this universal fact !
Posted by dr s venkatesan
Categories: bio ethics, cardiology journal club
Tags: britsh medical journal, cochrane nordic data base master medical check up, hippocrates, land mark article, master medical checkups, medical ethics, primum non nocere
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Reading this in 2021. Truest word to have ever been spoken. Modern medicine is revolved around pharmaceutical interventions — and has very little to do with getting people well. Most doctors today do not know how to help their patients if they do not have prescription for them.
By Annabelle Laferrière on December 9, 2021 at 2:16 am