Background Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has always required integration of patient
values with ‘best’ clinical evidence. It is widely recognized that scientific practices and …

Over time, the definition of prevention has expanded so that its meaning in the context of
health services is now unclear. As risk factors are increasingly considered to be the equivalent …

… Iona Heath, former general practitioner … Iona Heath argues that doctors and patients
need to face up to their fears of uncertainty and death if we are to control overmedicalisation …

Through this Trust a Fellowship was established to be awarded annually to a distinguished
individual from any discipline. Each holder of the Fellowship would be invited to prepare a …

A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick. Pharmaceutical
companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and consumers. Ray …

Overuse, which is defined as the provision of medical services that are more likely to cause
harm than good, is a pervasive problem. Direct measurement of overuse through …

Objectives: To examine the effect of patients' causal attributions of common somatic symptoms
on recognition by general practitioners of cases of depression and anxiety and to test the …

… 1.iona.heath22{at}yahoo.co.uk Iona Heath argues for a rebalancing of the two sides in
every clinical consultation, championing that for which evidence based medicine has no …

In January 2012 the Institute of Medicine in the United States published the report of a
consensus study on living well with chronic illness. The report made 17 recommendations for …

… Iona Heath, general practitioner3 … Dee Mangin, Kieran Sweeney, and Iona Heath
argue that, rather than prolonging life, preventive treatments in elderly people simply …