Overtreatment

12 Medical Tests That Can Do More Harm Than Good

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Senior Health, Breast Cancer Treatments, Doctors Who Overtreat, Doctors Who Overprescribe, Don Berwick, Health and Aging, Health Post50, Health After 50, Overtreatment, Early Detection, Unnecessary Medical Tests, Ralph DeAngelo, Medical Testing, Prostate Cancer Screening, Fifty News

Enter a new term into the midlife vernacular: medical gluttony. It's when our doctors order a barrage of "just in case" medical testing to keep us hap...

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Don't Confuse Grief With Depression

Allen Frances | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Overtreatment, Major Depression, Dsm-V, Dsm-Iv, Grief, Overdiagnosis, Dsm 5, Grief Disorder, DSM 5 Grief, DSM Controversy, Dsm-5-Additions, Science News
Allen Frances

Grief is the normal and absolutely unavoidable price we must pay for having the capacity to love -- it is most certainly not a disease.

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Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health

Allen Frances | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Overtreatment, Psychiatric Drugs, Dsm 5, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Prevention, Overdiagnosis, Dsm-5, Mental Health, Dsm V, Dsm-V, Preventive Psychiatry, Healthy Living News
Allen Frances

Preventive psychiatry may someday be of significant service in reducing the burden of human suffering -- but only if it can be done really well. And the sad truth is that we don't yet have the necessary tools.

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Health Care Reform: The U.S. Supreme Court vs. the Court of Public Opinion

Rosemary Gibson | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Maine, Overtreatment, Individual Mandate, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Obama, Treatment Trap, Anthem Plans of Maine, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Rosemary Gibson

Those who have to pay huge chunk of their income for health insurance won't care about the Supreme Court's interpretation of the U.S. Constitution; they will care about the constitution of their own wallets and checking accounts.

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Attention Wall Street Protestors: Wall Street is Messing With Your Health, Too

Rosemary Gibson | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Treatment Trap, Overtreatment, Private Equity Firms, Health Care, Wall Street Protest, Wall Street Health Care, Politics News
Rosemary Gibson

If Wall Street messed with your wealth, imagine how it is messing with your health. Investor-owned, for-profit health care is determining the medical treatment you get.

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Will President Obama Save Medicare?

Rosemary Gibson | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Treatment Trap, Overtreatment, Medicare, Medicare Fraud, President Obama, Politics News
Rosemary Gibson

President Obama can save Medicare without putting the burden on older Americans. And yes, it is possible to have great health care in America if Medicare is a good steward of the money the public has entrusted to it.

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Many Americans Overtreated

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cancer Treatment, Medical Treatment, Treat Cancer, Hospitalization, Health, Treatment Cancer, Overtreatment, Healthy Living News

The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home. For the first time in months, she was able to touch her 2-year-old daughter who had been afraid o...

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What Does Health Care "Reform" Mean? How Soon Can We Get There? Part 1

Maggie Mahar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drugmakers, Insurers, Health, Industry, Overtreatment, Medicare for All, Obama, Lbj, Medicare, Healthcare, Politics News
Maggie Mahar

Forces calling for health care reform are gaining momentum. But if by "reform," they simply mean "universal coverage," I have to disagree.

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