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  • Ditto for non-medically neccessary procedures. $3000 buys a lot of massages.

    Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Public funds should never be spent to force women to experience theocratic condemnation and medical misinformation in counseling sessions from non-medically licensed staff, but that's exactly the level this debate has sunk to as people justify unethical means with their religious ends.

    Roy Speckhardt: The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Wasting Money Roy Speckhardt 2011

  • Isn't that what insurance companies – unelected, non-medically trained bureaucrats – are already doing.

    Palin gets tough on Obama's health care proposals 2009

  • Unfortunately in most cases it is not the fault of these people as they have been given targets, limits and guidelines from their equally non-medically qualified managers, who have been further guided by government officials.

    The NHS is ripe for revolution | Ian Birrell 2011

  • Public funds should never be spent to force women to experience theocratic condemnation and medical misinformation in counseling sessions from non-medically licensed staff, but that's exactly the level this debate has sunk to as people justify unethical means with their religious ends.

    Roy Speckhardt: The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Wasting Money Roy Speckhardt 2011

  • At Phelps County Regional Medical Center, in Rolla, Mo., a proposal to prohibit non-medically indicated induction prior to 39 weeks was voted down three times by the hospital's obstetrics committee.

    A Push for More Pregnancies to Last 39 Weeks Laura Landro 2011

  • For instance, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 80 percent of students who used Adderall non-medically in the past year also used marijuana.

    Educators aware of prescription drug use, turn to prevention 2011

  • In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) blamed the serious emergence of Salmonella bacteria that had become resistant to no less than five different antibiotics on the routine and non-medically necessary use of antibiotics in livestock.

    John Robbins: Why Factory Farms Threaten Your Health 2010

  • In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) blamed the serious emergence of Salmonella bacteria that had become resistant to no less than five different antibiotics on the routine and non-medically necessary use of antibiotics in livestock.

    John Robbins: Why Factory Farms Threaten Your Health 2010

  • The findings, both published in the New England Journal of Medicine, provide some of the best evidence to date that when non-medically trained people perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the patient's survival rate is just as high without standard CPR, which includes both rescue breathing and chest compressions.

    In Many CPRs, Skip the Mouth-to-Mouth 2010

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