Is opportunistic disease prevention in the consultation ethically justifiable?

Getz, Linn; Sigurdsson, Johann A; Hetlevik, Irene · BMJ · 2003

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Abstract

<i>Medical resources are increasingly shifting from making patients better to preventing them from becoming ill. Genetic testing is likely to extend the list of conditions that can be screened for.</i> <i>Is it time to stop and consider whom we screen and how we approach it?</i>

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