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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overmedicalize .
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Examples
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"W. learned from Africa that in a very resource-limited setting, you can do very effective chronic care delivery that doesn't have to be overmedicalized," says Mark Dybul, who was the U.S. Global AIDS.Coordinator under President George W. Bush.
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Largely because women wish to avoid what they deem overmedicalized childbirth.
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At the American Psychiatric Society's annual conference in August, the organization's president, Steven S. Sharfstein, noted that antipsychotic medicines now generate $6.5 billion in sales a year and registered concern that mental disorders are being overmedicalized: "As a profession, we have allowed the bio-psychosocial model to become the bio-bio-bio model.
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