Tag: overtreatment
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What Patients Should Know About Medical Testing
The next two posts are about medical testing, something to which we are more and more subject as we get older. It seems rare these days to visit a doctor’s office and not come away with a handful of requisitions for some kind of medical test. This is especially true as we get older.
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Magical Thinking, Overtreatment, and Neglect of Patient and Family Values
My friend and college classmate Ted Marmor (see his recent post here) and Jonathan Oberlander have a short but illuminating article in a recent issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine – “From HMOs to ACOs: The Quest for the Holy Grail in U.S. Health Policy.” They offer a chastening analysis of our almost…