One dimensional healthcare

Whatever happened to root-cause investigations?

Open any health news feed today and you’ll see a familiar headline:

Scientists develop new drug for X or New jab could prevent Y.

It happens so often that we’ve stopped noticing the pattern but the pattern is the story.

Somewhere along the way, medicine narrowed. Where a good clinician once asked why a body was struggling, what was out of balance, what habit, exposure or deficiency was driving the symptom, the default answer has increasingly become: suppress it, block it, inject against it.

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