Doba jedová 10 - Méně medicíny - více zdraví – Welch H. Gilbert (2018)

Does more healthcare equal better health? No! Quite the opposite. This is what Professor H. Gilbert Welch, an expert in medicine, claims and proves in this book. According to him, far too many people undergo screening tests and examinations with all their harmful effects. Based on unreasonable, unnecessarily alarming diagnoses, they then undergo treatments they do not need – which, at best, do not help them and, at worst, harm them. People are forced to believe that seeking healthcare is the most important means of preserving health and well-being. Welch points out that, except for acute healthcare, everything is different: * more information can sometimes be harmful (because it frightens the individual), * an early diagnosis can turn a generally healthy person into a premature patient, * the effort to reduce risks paradoxically creates new risks, * new treatment methods are not necessarily better (they are just more dangerous), * excessive effort to avoid death can spoil a person's entire life. An experienced doctor and epidemiologist comes to a clear conclusion: the main problem with healthcare is its minimal benefit.