Quaternary Prevention

Earth Citizens' Health and Wellbeing

My goal in this blog is to promote a Triangular Approach to the Health and Wellbeing of Earth Citizens. This Triangular Approach consists of: 1) Quaternary Prevention (Preventing Unnecessary Interventions in Clinical Medicine and Public Health ), 2) Preconception Prevention of Diseases, 3) Social Prevention of Diseases and Social Treatment of the Patients

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Professor Dr BM Hegde : " If we can put an end to coronary angiograms for the diagnosis of anginal pain millions will be saved from morbidity, adverse drug reactions (ADRs), and premature death. This was exactly the advice that my former chief, Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown, gave in his article in 1992 (JAMA 1992; 266: 754-757)."