Former chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan has criticised the proliferation of “simple solutions” to complex challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic.
[ Dr Holohan said society needs to see health and wellbeing as essential resources for economic and social productivity, personal fulfilment and happiness rather than relying on a narrow monetary definition of what constitutes success.
“The narrow focus on GDP fails to value the wellbeing of individuals and societies. It measures only economic output and not the quality of our lives. It does not consider the distribution of wealth, environmental impact or social inequality.” Spending on health should be seen “not as a cost to our economy, but as an investment in health and investment in people,” he said. “The economy exists to serve our wellbeing as human beings and not the other way around.”
“When something goes wrong, doctors may fear the consequences of what they might say in apology or explanation. Sometimes that can lead to them responding defensively.”
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