I recently read “The Biomedical Empire” by Barbara Katz Rothman, an American sociologist. An astonishing book. She calls it “Empire”, whereas I prefer “Medical Industrial Complex”. The cooperation between patient organizations, doctors, researchers, government...
Cancer ranks as the deadliest disease worldwide. This is a partial truth because, whether it is the disease with the most victims or not, it doesn’t account for where you live for example. Now that COVID-19 has locked us down, questions arise about the relative impact...
Precision Medicine Forum – Patient Week convenes healthcare professionals, researchers, industry, payers and patients/patient advocates in a unique setting which puts the patient front and centre of the discussions. It’s widely acknowledged that patients should...
It is currently “cucumber time”, or the slow news season, that time during the summer months when people have time to think, instead of work, and I want to take advantage of this to generate a vision for the future of Inspire2live and the importance of the World...
With her book “The Biomedical Empire”, Barbara Katz Rothman, a medical sociologist from New York University, makes me a bit sad. She starts with that irritating remark: “Just imagine the financial crisis around the world if we just cured sickness”. She describes the...
