Primary Prevention, Secondary Prevention

"If you just put outcomes and make that the single aim we want to get the best outcomes, i guarantee you'll design a process that's dignified and lowers cost," he says. "The last time somebody surfaced that we were doing harm, it was two thousand years ago, and his name was hippocrates." 'We should be mindful of what we're doing in the service of good outcomes, to not harm people,' writes Dr. Aaron Carroll. The new hypocratic oath would give doctors an incentive to do more, not less for their patients.