Since the pandemic forced the medical care system to cancel some procedures, Covid-19 provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study if some, who are not acutely ill, do better with less medical care, write H. Gilbert Welch & Vinay Prasad | CNNOpinion
H. Gilbert Welch is a general internist in the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital and author of"Less Medicine, More Health." Vinay Prasad is an oncologist, associate professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University and author of"Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Medicine Harm People With Cancer." The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the authors; view more opinion articles on CNN.
The concern was that Covid-19 would overwhelm the medical care system with patients. While that has happened in some hot spots, the broader picture is just the opposite: Covid-19 has deprived the system of patients. H. Gilbert WelchVinay PrasadSome of these would-be patients have surely been hurt: having either shied away or been told to stay away from interventions that would have helped them live longer and/or live better. For others the delay may not matter; they will do equally well with intervention at a later date. But it is important to consider another possible outcome: some do better with less medical care. No one has national data yet, but the turn of events is remarkable.
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