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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: 3, Informative) by isostatic on Wednesday September 24 2014, @04:56PM
I have friends and family in the UK and there must be a gagging order to stop people talking about the shameful service.
It is, bloody shameful. In some parts of the UK you have to PAY TO PARK YOUR CAR when you visit the hospital for your free CT scan.
(Score: 2, Informative) by turgid on Wednesday September 24 2014, @08:01PM
I rely heavily on the NHS for my on-going well-being. Let me just add to your comment that I've only been let down by them on very rare occasions (caused by bad apples - i.e. unprofessional staff) but I am constantly impressed by the level of care and respect I receive from the NHS. Without them, I'd have ended up dead a long time ago.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:34PM
"caused by bad apples - i.e. unprofessional staff"
The thing I've never understood about the american neocon's loud trumpeting (farting, I guess?) of anecdotes involving people like that, is they assume we're dumb enough to think that a purely profit oriented faceless soul less corporate monopoly would somehow care enough to get rid of jerks, and we're dumb enough to have forgotten the last 50000 times things didn't work out so well under those conditions.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday September 24 2014, @08:10PM
Indeed, but we Brits do at least have the sense to treat that as scandalous.
(Well, sometimes, anyway. Whether the practice has categorically ended, I don't know.)
(Score: 2) by monster on Thursday September 25 2014, @03:12PM
That's outrageous! What will be next, force people to use their legs and (gasp) walk? Oh!, the humanity!