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The arrogance of preventive medicine.

David L. Sackett

PubMed · 2002 · 195 citations · 6 references

Concepts

Abstract

Preventive medicine displays all 3 elements of arrogance. First, it is aggressively assertive , pursuing symptomless individuals and telling them what they must do to remain healthy. Occasionally invoking the force of law (immunizations, seat belts), it prescribes and proscribes for both individual

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