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Abraham Verghese is a skeptic – The Myth of Prevention The article reacts to the now famous Gawande article. He argues that prevention does not save money. Yet, we know that high quality primary care does save money. I believe Verghese is making the classic mistake of defining prevention only as primary prevention. Those who study epidemiology and health services research understand that the real value occurs in secondary and tertiary prevention. Time for some prevention definiti

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