Because of Science You Also Die... Comment on "Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization".
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.
Quaternary Prevention Commission, Argentina Federation of Family and General Medicine (FAMFyG); Working Group P4 WONCA-CIMF, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jorge
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Bernstein
Quaternary Prevention Commission, Argentina Federation of Family and General Medicine (FAMFyG); Working Group P4 WONCA-CIMF, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ricardo La
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Valle
Communication Tools; Ethics; Evidence-Based Medicine; Family Physicians; Preventive Medicine; Quaternary Prevention (P4)