Medicine and health care are becoming a threat to human well-being notes John Ioannidis

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“In many places, medicine and health care are wasting societal resources and becoming a threat to human well-being,” notes John Ioannidis from Stanford University.

Later he continues on this topic by saying, “However, with 20% of GDP being spent on health and health care so inefficiently, with such limited evidence or with conflicted evidence, medicine and health care can become a major threat to health and well-being.”

“However, too much medicine and too much health care is already causing harm.”

Reference

Ioannidis JP. Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked: a report to David Sackett. J Clin Epidemiol, 2016 Mar 2; http://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(16)00147-5/fulltext.

Author’s Contact Info

John Ioannidis
Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy
Stanford University School of Medicine
Professor of Statistics
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
1265 Welch Rd, MSOB X306
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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