David L. Sackett's commentary on preventive medicine1 is a breath of fresh air which should
become a hurricane in this world where life is becoming increasingly “medicalized.” His last …

David L. Sackett's commentary on preventive medicine1 is a breath of fresh air which should
become a hurricane in this world where life is becoming increasingly “medicalized.” His last …

Considering the place of prevention in American medicine creates cognitive dissonance. On
the one hand, health policy experts, commentators, politicians, and your next-door neighbor …

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464-5476; courriel: Roger_Brown@ ama-assn. org satisfy a narcissistic need for public …

David Brown has an excellent article in the Health section of today's Washington Post: I raise
similar points here and here. Two points bear clarification, however. First, just because …

Prevention of disease is often difficult to put into practice. Among the obstacles: the success
of prevention is invisible, lacks drama, often requires persistent behavior change, and may …

Whenever the subject of health care costs comes up in the national debate, the idea that the
United States spends too little on prevention is sure to come up as well. For decades, there …

Executive Summary In 1986, Louise Russell published her landmark book,“Is Prevention
Better Than Cure?”, in which she evaluated the health and economic benefits of preventive …

An ounce of prevention may seem a heavy load for the already overburdened, costly US
health care system. But as health reformers somewhat wishfully argued during the 19th …

Preventive health: A cure for the future Page 1 1 issue 17 • november 2015 Leanne Wells if
there is one message that clearly comes through from this edition, it is that we need to turn up …