liveonearth (liveonearth) wrote,
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The Perversity of Modern Medicine

You can’t escape that much of what we do in medicine doesn’t make patients better. We work in a system that is driven by perverse incentives: we get paid more for doing more to patients. It’s got to stop.
--Dr Steve Nissen
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