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When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes

  • March 01, 2017

A new evaluation of health care in America has been co-written by The Atlantic and ProPublica, highlighting the never-ending epidemic of overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment for conditions that really don’t need treating at all. The authors referenced a 2013 study that found 146 studies that proved or strongly suggested that a current standard practice either had no benefit at all or was inferior to the practice it replaced; 138 articles supported the efficacy of an existing practice,...