Because of Science You Also Die...; Comment on “Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization”

The concept of quaternary prevention (P۴) 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 ۱۸-۲۱, ۲۰۱۵, it was established the Working Group P۴ WONCA-CIMF with communication tools included as constitutive part of P۴. It was also remarked that we should be wary of attempts to denature the P۴, diminishing its ethic value and limiting it to a reason for cost control.

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Quaternary Prevention (P۴) , Evidence-Based Medicine , Ethics , Preventive Medicine , Family Physicians , Communication Tools