Do Something, Do Nothing or First Do No Harm?

Hans Duvefelt, MD

Jan 2

This morning, I reposted a piece from 2010 on my Substack, titled Doing Nothing, about an older woman who elected to leave her blood pressure untreated rather than putting up with the side effects she had experienced with every blood pressure medication she had tried.

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Nanci Cartwright

Exactly this, thank you.

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