WELL: Overtreatment Is Taking a Harmful Toll

“What new information will this give us?” “Will it change what we are doing?”
In today’s world of overtreatment, it is you who has the ultimate responsibility to ask the right questions and maybe you will be the one to finally say, “No.” Perhaps every mystery need not be solved.

From The New York Times:

WELL: Overtreatment Is Taking a Harmful Toll

An epidemic of overtreatment is costing the health care system at least $210 billion a year, and patients are paying the price in pain, emotional suffering, severe complications and even death.

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