Knowledge as primary prevention: before being a doctor, doctors must also be teachers

Abstract

We can act in two ways to offer a good physical and mental health status to humanity: to prevent and to cure. In both cases, firstly we have to study the problem and the strategy that aims to its resolution. Secondly, if we hold a good solution to the problem in order to obtain the best possible result we must teach other doctors and people this possible solution to the studied problem. In case of primary prevention the first people to whom we must explain all these things are the people who live in the world which must be able to consciously choose whether or not to live in a healthy way possibly without compromising the choices and the health of other people. All these situations require great teaching skills by physicians. What we discussed so far is what should always happen in theory.