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Moving healthcare upstream sounds like progress. But earlier isn't necessarily better.

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director of the Bioethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, worries about what happens when medicine answers that question too aggressively.

“If moving healthcare upstream allows us to identify risk before illness begins,” Hayes-Mota asked, “how do we make sure we are creating healthier lives rather than simply creating patients earlier?”

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, quoted in a Substack from The Care Capitalist.