Re: General healthchecks unlikely To Benefit Patients

Posted by Dinah on October 24, 2012, at 4:00:30

In reply to Re: General healthchecks unlikely To Benefit Patients, posted by jono_in_adelaide on October 23, 2012, at 22:25:25

"Evidence based medicine."
Shudder. I can certainly see what that means in psychiatry. CBT for everyone, whether or not it works for an individual. It *should* work for you, and if it doesn't, tough cookies. What do you mean you aren't feeling chipper after that course of Prozac?
"Cost effectiveness tests" doesn't inspire me with confidence either. It doesn't benefit the tribe to give these tests, even if it saves the lives of individual members of the tribe.
I can't decide if I'm glad I'm old because at least I don't have to see by the numbers, bottom line medicine being forced down the throat of former individuals. Or somewhat depressed that I'm entering the period of life when, evolutionarily speaking, my benefit to the tribe lessens, while my cost to the tribe increases at a time of bottom line health care.

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