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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 mmcmonster on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:58PM
Unfortunately, there are some conditions that require multiple medications to suppress. One easy one seen in younger people now is coronary heart disease. If a person has a heart attack it's quite common to be on 5 medications for it. Each one prevents a different complication of the disease process. Do they work? Let's just say that you're 10 times less likely to be dead a year after a heart attack if you take all the medications than if you didn't take any of them.
(And I mean suppress in the first sentence above. We don't have proper cures for a lot of medical conditions other than some infectious diseases. We have medications that help suppress them. You stop the medications, bad things happen.)