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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, Insightful) by nyder on Wednesday September 24 2014, @05:47PM
If you go to a Clinic, like a one for poor people, you'll find that the doctors don't try to sell you on stuff you don't need, just trying to deal with what you need and whatever your problems are.
Sure, if you go to a stuffy rich person doctor's office, they take their time, they try to find stuff wrong with you so they can sell you prescriptions (that they get a cut from), or other shit you don't need.
For once, the poor people got it better.
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Wednesday September 24 2014, @06:33PM
The poor people get it better.
Unless you want to see the average lifespan and stratify by age. Or general wellness.
People who can afford testing and medications tend to live better and longer than people who cannot. I'm not saying that correlation implies causation, but it certainly seems like it.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday September 25 2014, @12:11AM
That's because the poor people can't actually afford the clinic either, so they go as little as possible.
It's sad that in order to not be prescribed unnecessary treatments you have to be too poor to even afford the necessary ones.