Preventive Medicine as it relates to a positive “quality of life” must be given top priority. With soaring medical costs of health care, allied health professions must place much more concern on innovative and creative ways to reduce or eliminate situations that may endanger an individual's health. If individuals, through self control, can begin to master their own destiny then the concept of Preventive Medicine may begin to be internalized by humankind.
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