Jordi Varela, Doctor: “More than Half of the Tests in Majors Do Not Provide Value, Endoscopy and Routine Cts Are Done, Treatments that Lengthen Life without Quality”

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We live a unique moment in history: longevity extends, but also increases chronicity, loneliness and social inequalities. “The big question is no longer just how long we will live, but how to build a society capable of caring for a long life,” says Jordi Varela (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 1952), a doctor in Medicine who has been a director of three hospitals in the Catalan public network — Puigcerdà, Hospital del Mar and Hospital de Sant Pau —, c…