ABSTRACT
It is obviously much better to prevent a disorder developing than to treat a disorder, but the success to date of traditional medicine in preventing disorder is limited. Frances (2015) has observed:
With few exceptions (e.g. screening for lung cancer in smokers or colon cancer in everyone), the testing is often not good for the patients – not really improving outcomes, while further burdening them with aggressive, expensive, and unnecessary treatments. And the waste to society runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year that could be better used treating really sick people. . . . Preventative medicine is a terrifi c goal gone badly astray because it became industrialized and enslaved by profi t and hype.
