Interesting! This remind me of a concept Nassim Nicholas Taleb spoke about in his book ‘Antifragile’. Have you read it?
He said a lot of western medicine involves treatments and surgery that puts the patient at unecessary risk when compared to the possible benefit. He used the word iatrogenics which is when a treatment causes more harm than benefit. The root of the word means “caused by the healer.”
The author believes people who are more well off with better insurance often end up with worse health or dying sooner due to western medicine’s mind set of unecessary and sometimes unsubstantiated interventionist medicine.
He points out how docotors never really get rewarded for not performing a treatment or surgery that would have put the patient at risk. It’s harder to measure when a docotor is doing a good job at not doing iatrogenics because it’s not obvious to see.
Instead of fixing a crisis that’s obvious a doctor that practiced this less interventionist approach would simply be preventing a crisis (that by definition then wouldn’t occur) so no one might ever realize this and it’s difficult to track.
All of that’s to say I think the concept you brought up is very interesting!
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