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Covid-19: chance to reduce healthcare
Covid-19 highlights the failings of the health system as a whole
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3329 (Published 28 August 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3329
- Joachim P Sturmberg, associate professor of general practice and systems researcher
- University of Newcastle and International Society for Systems and Complexity Sciences for Health, Holgate, NSW 2250, Australia
- jp.sturmberg{at}gmail.com
Covid-19 is more than an opportunity to reduce unnecessary care, it is an opportunity to redesign the health system as a whole. While there is no problem with Moynihan and colleagues’1 emphasis on overtreatment and overdiagnosis, these are two of the many phenotypical failings of …
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