antibiotic overuse in children leads to thousands of er visits
ANTIBIOTIC OVERUSE: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THINGS WERE GETTING BETTER… Have you seen the latest? The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society just published a study titled US Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events From Antibiotics in Children…. After the team of 6 CDC researchers mentioned that antibiotics are arguably the most-prescribed drugs […]
are far too many americans really getting too much medical care?
ARE YOU RECEIVING TOO MUCH MEDICAL CARE? A RECENT CONFERENCE SUGGESTS IT’S LIKELY My hero @garyschwitzer at Too Much Medicine Conference. His @HealthNewsRevu exposes how crap media hype fails to report:1)Costs2)Harms3)Scope of benefits4)Quality of evidence5)Alternate optionsMedia PR has contributed to overtreatment. Only media truth can cure it. #TMMA recent tweet from Dr. Allen Frances, Professor […]
interesting articles from a large “medical daily” provides insight into our dysfunctional national healthcare
CAN OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BE CHANGED? Dr. Milton Packer is no slouch. And although I wouldn’t quite call him Doogie Howser; after getting his undergrad degree from Penn State, he received his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College back in 1973 —- when he was (gulp) 22 years old. Since that time his career […]
new study shows that a third of all medical treatment is unnecessary
What if I Told You Your Doctor Visits Might Be Unnecessary? The brand new issue of the medical journal PLoS One published a study called Overtreatment in the United States. Those of you who have been following my blog long enough know that I’ve shared my opinion on this phenomenon of OVERDIAGNOSIS & OVERTREATMENT before. […]