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Preventive medicine has potentially big role

Benjamin Dean, senior house officer (djdeeno1979@yahoo.co.uk)

Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 2HU

EDITOR—I am frustrated at Heath's and Godlee's view of preventive medicine.1 2 They both argue against excessive drug prescribing and treating risk factors, seeing these as aspects of preventive medicine. What is preventive medicine, and why does preventive medicine have to be practised by the medical profession?

I agree …