Treating symptoms in chronic conditions weakens health and undermines the constitution. The number of patients with chronic conditions is also increasing at an alarming rate. They often use many medicines for this on a daily basis, even against side effects of side effects.
Cause-oriented thinking in medicine can lead to a major improvement in this respect. Not only for the quality of life, but also for reducing absenteeism and disability. Cause-oriented thinking and treatment offers the greatest conceivable cost savings, and therefore also from an economic point of view a better use of the resources released.
Healthcare costs are exploding and rising twice as fast as national income. The result is draconian measures: a reduction in the care package and at the same time an increase in the personal contribution. Worse still, house-eating and pension encroachment may be used to pay for healthcare costs. The discussion about ending treatment earlier for the elderly seems unheard of and Orwellian.
Medicine hits a wall of symptomatic treatment. This leads to major problems, especially in the third trimester of life, and medicine can ultimately no longer offer any help; costs become decisive for life and death. Medicine may unwittingly close the trap of the symptom-oriented Galenic thinking here.
- Author(s) : Jan Ramakers
- ISBN : 9789085709138
- Language: Dutch
- Number of pages : 100