Turning Healthy People Into Patients

Modern medical practice is engaged in a battle, not for hearts and minds, but for the conversion of perfectly healthy people into patients.
Turning Healthy People Into Patients
Alwyn Daniel with a tablet of the anti-cholesterol drug statins in London on March 21, 2014. Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
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Modern medical practice is engaged in a battle, not for hearts and minds, but for the conversion of perfectly healthy people into patients.

However, a substantial majority of these people, labelled “at high risk” of various diseases in the name of prevention, will not benefit despite the significant costs of preventive interventions. In fact, some may be harmed.

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