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Comment
. 2015 May 20;4(9):615-6.
doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.102.

Because of Science You Also Die... Comment on "Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization"

Jorge Bernstein  1 , Ricardo La Valle  1
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Because of Science You Also Die... Comment on "Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization"

Jorge Bernstein et al. Int J Health Policy Manag. .

Abstract

The concept of quaternary prevention (P4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage through the proper exercise. Family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people's humanity. In the fourth Congress of Family and Community Medicine, held in Montevideo (Uruguay) last March 18-21, 2015, it was established the Working Group P4 WONCA-CIMF with communication tools included as constitutive part of P4. It was also remarked that we should be wary of attempts to denature the P4, diminishing its ethic value and limiting it to a reason for cost control.

Keywords: Communication Tools; Ethics; Evidence-Based Medicine; Family Physicians; Preventive Medicine; Quaternary Prevention (P4).

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