The Marquette University Law School's Annual Elder's Advisor CLE begins on March 26, 2010, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The title of the CLE is "The Push to Institutionalize Prevention: We Win, We Lose." Information about the event is below:
The Push to Institutionalize Prevention: We Win, We Lose
"Changing our activities and our eating, taking pills and potions, trying to improve a condition or its symptoms--all this is as old as humankind. But the benign face of prevention--often found in the doctor who knows the patient as a person--has changed as health care has evolved, becoming a growing business of recommendations for screens and tests. The trigger that sets this process in motion in an individual case is often the patient's chronological age or chemistry, the latter revealed when some other condition warrants general screening. The result for many people can be overtreatment, opening a patient to the potential for invasive, lifelong side effects. And even though anecdotes relate the risks avoided, mortality rates are unchanged by some preventive measures.
This symposium sheds light on the excellent, the misguided, and the mysterious aspects of preventive care, with recognition of the roles that law, policy, and politics play through finance and quality assurance. For this discussion, we bring together scholars and experts in health and medicine--people who can assess both the public debate and the human and economic aspects of prevention.
You should wish to attend this conference if you are a practitioner or academic in law, public health, nursing, allied health professions, or community medicine, or if you take part in health-related policymaking on a local, state, or federal level."
Posted by Patrick Siegfried, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal.
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