Choose between Health or Medicine - John Ioannidis

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“Medicine and the medicalization of society is becoming a major threat to humanity. You know medicine is becoming like a public enemy of health at the moment.
And we need to take sides, you know we need to take sides are we with medicine, [or] are we with health? Are we with drugs and interventions? And now I need to add public health measures to the list?
Or are we with humans, are we with human lives and with quality of life?
It's unfortunate that that it's coming to this. But medicine is becoming an enemy of health and that 50 percent tipping point, the inflection point that you mentioned is probably not very far if you think that for example we had a 33 percent drop in in GDP in the US, you add the 20 percent of GBP that goes to medicine, here's your 50 percent right now in in in some sort of calculation.
I don't think that we can sustain that, I think that we need to think of priorities, we need to think of what we are achieving with all these measures. We have lots of extremely effective medical interventions and this is wonderful chapeau bas.
Medicine is saving lots of lives we have lots of ineffective interventions and when it comes to COVID-19 in the public health response I am afraid that many of the ineffective interventions are not just applied to one patient at s time which is still detrimental.
But they're applied to the whole world at large, so we're not talking about a single patient being mismanaged we're talking about 7.7 billion people being mismanaged and suffering.”

— John P.A. Ioannidis (Professor Of Medicine Stanford Prevention Research, of Epidemiology and Population Health and By Courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science)

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Source: Plenary Sessions, (Oct 03, 2020)