We knew the imaginary patients, as well as the Dr Knocks for whom all in good health only ignored their illness.
But a new species of patient has appeared over the progress of medical diagnosis, writes Luc Perino: the "non-sick", who feels perfectly well but in whom medicine has detected a deviation from the biological norm, a risk factor , a genetic predisposition, which will then have to be taken care of when no one is able to say whether the anomaly will become a disease.
“A drift towards unjustified and sometimes deleterious care”
, regrets the doctor, teacher at the Lyon medical school and popularizer
.
For a long time, explains the author, medicine only faced two types of patients: those whose experience corresponds to the disease diagnosed by the doctor;
others suffering from
"non-objectifiable diseases"
, expressing a complaint for which the doctor cannot find a clinical sign (whether he is convinced that the patient is indeed ill with a…
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