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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @11:14PM
Actually, Kaiser ran a whole series of ads just like that. Free preventative care counseling, get out and move kind of thing. Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign. They're not as well funded as the Lipitor ads, and they don't close with 10 seconds of legalese, so maybe you don't notice them, but they're definitely out there.