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Money and Medicine
Overuse of C-section. Profit maker and more convenient for hospitals.
Families will keep patient asking on machines even when there is 0% chance of meaningful recovery (neurological mental state)
Cancer Treatment. One study shows that Palliative care lives longer
CAT Scan is 200-500 chest X-rays. *Cancer causing.
Hospitals practice “defensive medicine” to protect from missing the one positive.
Mammogram. **Half of women will have false (+) after 10 years of tests. For example, 2000 women do annual test for 10 years. ***1 will avoid death. 500-1000 will have one false alarm. 2-10 will be over diagnosed and treated unnecessarily
Prostate Screening (PSA) ***Poster boy of over-treatment. **Most findings are benign. 1.3mm men. If find real issue, usually too late anyway. Same mortality rate of screeners vs. non-screeners
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