In Second-Order Ignorance (SOI): Leaning to See the Problem, I used several names for the problem afflicting the allegorical elephant gang-molested by the blind. Yesterday, I discovered another excellent name for the problem: clinicism.
Clinicism is the reduction of health to individualistic biomedical paradigms that overemphasize clinical perspectives and interventions (even though clinical care is estimated to account for only 10 to 20% of modifiable factors shaping health in the United States*) while normalizing existing social conditions and neglecting to prioritize preventive policies that target other key drivers of health and disease.
The "other key drivers of health and disease” should not be reduced to money, but they can't be divorced from money either. As the title of this article suggests, money is medicine.
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Money as Medicine
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In Second-Order Ignorance (SOI): Leaning to See the Problem, I used several names for the problem afflicting the allegorical elephant gang-molested by the blind. Yesterday, I discovered another excellent name for the problem: clinicism.
The "other key drivers of health and disease” should not be reduced to money, but they can't be divorced from money either. As the title of this article suggests, money is medicine.
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