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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 strattitarius on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:46PM
"Protection money" - yeah they didn't threaten CPS but it was more a "think of the child - he could die from an attack" type of stuff. The whole thing changed me from a typical person that trusts doctors as "experts" to someone who realized that I was probably smarter than the doctors and had much more information than they did. I am not going to try my own surgery, but I will be active in diagnosis from now on.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 24 2014, @10:00PM
"renew his prescriptions for his epi pen"
ah that makes sense especially if its dosage depends on body weight. That at least makes sense, even if they probably bill $450/hr like our specialist.