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Unnecessary care: are doctors in denial and is profit driven healthcare to blame?

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Unnecessary interventions are estimated to account for 10-30% of spending on healthcare in the US, costing $250bn-$800bn annually and posing potential harms to patients. As Jeanne Lenzer reports, overtreatment is woven through American medical culture, but a newly launched movement is challenging the assumption that more is better.


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