Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prevail upon as by treating or entreaty; over-persuade; overtalk.
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- verb medicine To subject to
excessive medicaltreatment , often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects
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Examples
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And isn't it doctors, rather than patients, who have a financial incentive to overtreat?
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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SHANNON BROWNLEE: My big concern, as you know, is unnecessary care, and while I don't argue that the principal force that drives doctors to overtreat patients is greed, it is part of the problem.
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Bundling care -- where a provider gets a lump sum to treat a diabetic for a year, as opposed to getting paid for every new thing they do to the diabetic -- will encourage more efficient care, as the hospital makes money when it doesn't overtreat, as opposed to when it does.
Will the Medicare cuts in health-care reform stick? Ezra Klein 2011
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This study has the same flaw as numerous prior studies on prostate cancers (which is why we still overtest and overtreat them) and some other diseases.
An Illustration of Premium Medicine, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Parents tend to overtreat fevers, even waking up sleeping kids to give them fever-reducing medicine, Farrar said.
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SHANNON BROWNLEE: My big concern, as you know, is unnecessary care, and while I don't argue that the principal force that drives doctors to overtreat patients is greed, it is part of the problem.
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And isn't it doctors, rather than patients, who have a financial incentive to overtreat?
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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The report's royal "we" returns again and again to such questions, claiming that "we overdiagnose, overtreat and overpromise."
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Nowhere do doctors face greater pressures to overtest and overtreat.
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Nowhere do doctors face greater pressures to overtest and overtreat.
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