![]() Despite all the reports about overdiagnosis and overtreatment in the United States (and estimates are that almost a third of all medical interventions in this country are unnecessary), many doctors want to take a more reasoned and less wasteful approach to medicine.īut those “lone ranger” doctors are up against a powerful medical industrial complex that “just keeps on delivering treatments patients don’t need,” as journalist Shannon Brownlee ( “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer”), now senior vice president of the Lown Institute, explains in a recent article for the website KevinMD.īrownlee describes the experiences of a young doctor who, after attending a Lown Institute conference during medical school on how to avoid overtreatment, “vowed to avoid hurting his own patients with useless treatments during his residency” at a Boston hospital. ![]()
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