The concept of quaternary prevention (P4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage
through the proper exercise. Family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values
and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people’s humanity. In the fourth
Congress of Family and Community Medicine, held in Montevideo (Uruguay) last March 18-21, 2015, it was
established the Working Group P4 WONCA-CIMF with communication tools included as constitutive part of
P4. It was also remarked that we should be wary of attempts to denature the P4, diminishing its ethic value and
limiting it to a reason for cost contro