Prevention vs Iatrogenic Harm.
In medicine, when we see something awry-or even something that might go awry-we tend to fix it. But can this tendency create its own problems? A friend's recent experience got me thinking about the fine line between preventive medicine and iatrogenic harm.
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Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. gord@stanford.edu.