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From Men's Journal:
Every time you walk into a physician's office, you run the risk of overtreatment: Tests you don't need, medications that are ineffective (or dangerous), procedures that cause more problems than they solve. In many cases the best thing for your health is to do nothing.
Make no mistake: A good doctor is, or should be, your most trusted resource if you're sick. If you're not sick and he wants to treat you anyway, that doesn't necessarily make him a bad doctor. But it does make him a player in a system that operates according to the unspoken and often unexamined assumption that more treatment is better for the patient. It's unquestionably better for the financial health of the stakeholders in the system: the doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, the health-insurance companies, and the hospitals. If you don't know how the game is played, the odds go up that you'll wind up the loser.
What do you people think, will people change if they know this?
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday September 24 2014, @04:29PM
That doesn't stop drug reps taking GPs out to lunch (both literally and perhaps metaphorically) - hence the existence of http://www.nofreelunch.org/ [nofreelunch.org]
Just make sure the doctor doesn't rifle through his complimentary pen collection before putting you on DangerousSideeffect-a-thol!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 25 2014, @03:28PM
I clicked the "Click for HELP!" link at the bottom of the opening blurb.. it 404's.
Apparently, no help for you!