article_snippet.sent: ’s sense of wellbeing’, warns senior GPsenior GP.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Des Spence added: ‘We should be sceptical of embracing more medical technology.
article_snippet.sent: One of the problems We face as doctors is that although people are much healthier, there is a lot more anxiety.
article_snippet.sent: ‘People’s sense of wellbeing has been eroded and a lot of that is by technology, use of the internet, that type of stuff.
article_snippet.sent: so people would spend more money on health technology, diet pills and slimming firms.
article_snippet.sent: And Dr Spence warned there was a risk that patients relying on a risk that patients relying on them would feel ‘cheated’ if they developed cancer or heart disease despite trying to follow a healthy lifestyle would feel ‘cheated’ if a risk that patients relying on them would feel ‘cheated’ if they developed cancer or heart disease despite trying to follow a healthy lifestyle developed cancer or heart disease despite trying to follow a healthy lifestyle.
article_snippet.sent: Also writing in the BMJ, Dr Spence said they had ‘great potential’ to reduce death risk by ‘encouraging healthy behaviour’.
highlights_snippet.sent: ‘untested and unscientific’
  