March 12, 2010

HOW LONG UNTIL HE'S CAUGHT ON CAMERA DRIVING WHILE TEXTING?

Medical testing: more doesn’t always mean better (LINDSEY TANNER, 03/12/10, AP)

A spate of recent reports suggest that when it comes to health care, too many Americans are being over-treated.

Experts say there are many reasons, including doctors practicing defensive medicine, and patients used to medical technology who demand extensive tests and treatments. [...]
A medical journal editorial this week cited President Barack Obama’s recent checkup as an example of more care not necessarily being better care. The president had a prostate cancer test that many groups don’t recommend routinely, and colon cancer screening that some doctors think isn’t the best method.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 12, 2010 6:41 AM
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