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Medical Organizations Acknowledge Overtreatment Is a Problem
A pediatrician gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on Sept. 21, 2011, in Miami, Florida. According to some medical professionals, at least 45...
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Costly and Harmful: We Need to Tame the Tsunami of Too Much Medicine
ABC’s “Four Corners” program on waste in health care didn’t pull any punches. “Many common treatments are often unnecessary, ineffective, or worse still harmful,” said presenter Kerry O’Brien,...
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Sometimes Less Is Better—So Why Don’t Doctors Deintensify Medical Treatment?
Doctors know a lot about when to start medications to treat disease. But sometimes our focus on starting medicines means we can confuse providing more care with providing better care. And better care...
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