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Of the many ways Americans are overtested and overtreated, imaging is one of the most common and insidious.

Americans Get Most Radiation From Medical Scans 2010

Dr. Mohler cited a 2006 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that found that 45% of American men with prostate cancer who received external radiation were being overtreated.

A Device to Kill Cancer, Lift Revenue John Carreyrou 2010

While overtreatment is obviously not a good idea from an efficiency standpoint, the folks being overtreated shouldn't be too quick to defend their right to hold on to all that medical care either, because many studies have shown that overtreatment poses its own risks to health and life.

D. Brad Wright: When Less Is More In Health Care 2009

In other words, if you're an allergy sufferer in McAllen and you want to join the ranks of the overtreated, you don't need an allergist to get there.

The City of Too Much Medicine Makes News Again 2009

I think that there are a lot more people who are undertreated because it's too expensive than there are people who are overtreated because they've got nothing else to amuse themselves with.

James Hamilton on the Great Race, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Some studies estimate that Americans are overtreated by roughly 30 percent.

The Case for Killing Granny 2009

"People are getting overtreated at the end of life," said Robert Berenson, a former Medicare official in the Clinton administration and a fellow at the Urban Institute.

End-of-Life Provision Loses Favor 2009

About 15 percent of patients in ICUs are terminally ill and overtreated, says Father John J. Paris, bioethics professor at Boston College.

Software For Hard Issues 2008

"We're overtreated one group and undertreating another," says Daniel Weiss, chief medical officer of Vicor Technologies Inc., a Boca Raton, Fla., startup that has devised an algorithm that can assess a patient's risk of sudden cardiac arrest by analyzing heart beats.

Defibrillators Can Save Lives -- 2008

I see now that old fashioned bacon tastes much more meaty and natural than chemical-and-salt overtreated commercial product, say, like Farmer John brand.

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