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- verb Present participle of
overtreat .
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Examples
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"The danger of overtreating is low, especially in an environment where we dangerously undertreat risk factors," Stein said.
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Often, overtreating fatal illnesses happens because patients don't want to give up.
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The findings echo a recent Associated Press story in which many emergency room doctors said lawsuit fears are the main reason for overtreating in the ER.
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The findings echo a recent Associated Press story in which many emergency room doctors said lawsuit fears are the main reason for overtreating in the ER.
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The authors argue that the disease can often be treated as a chronic ailment and that zealous doctors are over-diagnosing and overtreating it.
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There is no way we can get control of costs, which have grown by nearly 50 percent in the past decade, without finding a way to stop overtreating patients.
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How can a town with virtually no allergists be dramatically overtreating its patients 'allergies?
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Doctors can feel guilty, too — about overtreating patients.
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Paris hopes APACHE may reduce overtreating and hospital costs as well.
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"Some think that may be overtreating," says Margaret Fischl, an AIDS researcher at the University of Miami Medical School.
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