Contents
Preface
Author's Preface
Introduction
A not so ... benign process
Retreat of visions
Reform of mindset takes precedence
The anachronism of unyielding regimes
The role of political leadership
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The new world order
Reasons necessitating the reform of systems
Debunking traditional dogmas
The challenge of new perceptions
The reality of the new order
The confrontation of systems with the challenge
The international standard
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Deliverance from illusions
Goal: the system's competitiveness
Bundle of distinct prerequisites and distinguishing questions
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The debt of medical schools to reform
Urgent need to lift the schism
Deficit of awareness of responsibilities
Conditions for successful integration
Concern for the population of the geographical area
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BIOPOLITICS
Biopolitics and biopriorities
A plethora of novel questions
Biomedical policy principles
Reassessment of priorities and hierarchy of needs
Breakdown of established stereotypes
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Rationalization of the national health system or confusion of priorities
Obsolete ideologies
Readiness for the assimilation of standards
Criteria for positive evaluation of measures
Demystifying myths
The safeguarding of population health
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Precondition for modernizing the national health system: reassessment of the number of doctors and specialties
Threatening overcapacity of doctors
Hatching grounds for sub-specialties
Undermining the system
Reversal of the phenomenon is feasible
Emphasis on primary care
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Balanced choices and equality of access to the national health system
The relentless deadlock duo and Brecht's question
Revision of anti-economic practices
The individual-centered nature of the system
Individual-centered needs and the rights of the social whole
Hierarchy of prioritized conditions and balanced choices
The Cushing example highlights radical changes
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Quality and cost of medical care
Quality: the third revolution in medical care
Top component of the triptych
The main causes of degradation
Insufficient evaluation of medical acts
Unacceptable differences in approaching the problem
Poverty of person-centered care
Non-negotiable adherence to the application of criteria
The fundamental doctrine of the "revolution"
Battle on three fronts
The importance of initial design
The "demand model" and the "public health"
Towards a systemic view of the problem
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Standardization of medical care
Fundamental reassessment of objectives
Cleansing of the system
Prerequisite skills
Overcoming tormenting obsessions
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The challenge of alternative medicine
Clarification of terms
Six reinforcing arguments
The silencing of the challenge
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The cost of medical care sustains the health crisis
Autonomous crisis
The factors of cost
The demographic aging of the population
The biomedical technology
The coefficient of mismanagement
The responsibility of operational medicine
The new diseases
The inherent weaknesses of the "system"
Guarantees of reconstruction
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Individual rights and responsibilities
Individual rights and medical care
Rights of individuals and civil society
Negative and positive rights
Society-centered policy
Heightened awareness of responsibilities
The fragile balance of responsibilities and rights
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Individual responsibility for health
Misinterpretation of intentions
Ideological polarizations
The cost of incurable addictions
Poverty of cognitive background
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Genetic intervention in human behavior
The disorientation of unconsidered hyper-interpretations
Potential for dangerous drifts
The thorny question of equality
Simplicity of interpretative oversimplifications
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Cancer: the painful reality
"Overabundant failure"
The testimony of the numbers
The public is anxious, the experts criticize
The urgent question: Prevention or treatment?
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Public health, hazardous pollutants, and "safety limits"
The high price of progress
Undisputed relationship
The limitations of scientific methodology
Factors of increased sensitivity
Central targeting: prevention and information
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The future of health services
Health services in the twenty-first century
Confrontation with future challenges
The recipients of health service provision
The spaces for providing medical care
The future medical and paramedical staffing
The info-medical model of health and disease
Restraint in pessimistic conclusions
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Health System Bills and the future of health professions
The irresistible charm of experts
What seers do not do
Maturity of awareness of future perspectives
Fertile ruptures with the past
Restoration of quality hierarchies
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Biomedical Technology
Contradictions of biomedical technology
Acknowledgment of limits
Four fundamental questions
Immediate interventional medicine or preventive medicine
Semi-technologies or basic research
The dehumanizing nature of technocratically driven medicine
Equal access to medical technology
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Bureaucratically governed medical care
The strong striking arm of modern technology
Qualitative gradations instead of quantitative maximizations
Technology as a supporter
Abrogation of space-time
The claims and awe of innovation
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Biomedical basic research and targeted biotechnology
The indisputable prestige of basic research
The relentless necessity of evolution
The precarious step of competitors and competitors
Fissures of reservations
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The relentless march of biomedical technology
Deficient formations
Artificial divisions
Technologies do not bear their kind
Continuous redefinition of the medical field
Ongoing questioning of the self-evident and established
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The hidden side of technology
Risks of alienation
Unyieldingly vigilant
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Ethical issues
"The death of Ivan Ilych" and the dance of life
Everyday dilemmas
Who fears the truth?
Questioning the "beneficent" deception
The culmination of duty
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The crusaders of cleansing
Campaign of devaluing labels
The complicity of silence
Lonely snipers and "law-abiding" shopkeepers
Roles - models: a type in shortage
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Medical schools and health systems
Unacceptably degraded and unadapted undergraduate medical education in Greece
Lack of modernizing boldness
Criteria for distinguishing the essential from the secondary
Signposts of strategic planning
Establishment of prerequisites for recovery
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The social responsibility of medical schools
Navigator: the "sandwich" model
Meaningfulness of the mission
The radical sharpness of today's problems
Awakening of consciences
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Medical schools and the national health system
Relations of mutual tolerance and forced coexistence
The hermeticism: a sure recipe for decay
Condition for dynamic involvement: reconstruction with modern materials
