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DQ News: What’s Wrong with Medicine? Too Much Healthcare

Reuters:

Here is a diagnosis of what’s wrong with health care in America, straight from the horse’s mouth: There’s too much.

In a new poll of primary care physicians, nearly half of them said their patients received too much medical care and more than a quarter said they were practicing more aggressively than they’d like to.

That could mean ordering more tests, prescribing more drugs or diagnosing people with diseases, although they would never have experienced any symptoms.

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