Non-diseases, medicine challenged (Luc Perino)

In his test, the Dr Perino alerts us – treated as much as caregivers – to the current drift of the medical system which tends to des surdiagnostics and therefore to a overmedicalization Population. He regrets that health prediction too often takes precedence over the clinic and the practice of care.

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This phenomenon led Luc Perino to develop the concept of “non-diseases” to designate two types of situations: those where the patient is a passive and submissive object, and those where medical intervention is futile or even harmful. All this ultimately having the effect that non-diseases take over care “real” patients. With the ultimate consequence that the general level of physical and mental health of our society is deteriorating.

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