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Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer: How celebrities influence public health
06 Sep 2024 01:42 GMT
… potential to influence the public health narrative. Sometimes these celebrity stories … cancer may have inadvertently fuelled overtesting among women not at high … treatments that Macpherson said her doctor offered: mastectomy surgery, radiation, chemotherapy …
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Construction and Validation of a Predictive Model for Culture Results of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Superficial Lymph Nodes
12 Oct 2024 09:01 GMT
… results. This will guide doctors in making informed decisions … mycobacterium culture, as most doctors opt for an encompassing … to a propensity for over-testing. This not only increases … and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care. Expert consensus …
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Opinion: I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me
17 Jun 2024 13:34 GMT
… and costly paths: misdiagnosis or over-testing. Failing to diagnose hypochondria for … empathy and training health care providers (especially emergency doctors) to recognize and … also help is instituting a medical billing code for hypochondria. Without …
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Doctors fear Medicare reforms could ‘reproduce failures’ of UK health system
12 Apr 2024 19:18 GMT
… suggested there be Medicare subsidies for professionals other than doctors to refer … solution or protection for the health system.
“There is a disproportionate … of the generalist ... Over-prescribing, over-testing, over-imaging and over-diagnosis …
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Woman is branded a 'bad person' after insisting pet owners should not take on 'life-altering medical debt' on behalf of their animals
12 Apr 2024 10:04 GMT
… can be absolutely vicious with over-testing and making you feel guilty … user argued: 'Life-altering medical debt for animals - and … you accept they will have health issues at some point and … for their animal's medicine, prescriptions and care.
The CMA …
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[Contribution] Introduce attending physician system, expand public healthcare before increasing medical school enrollment quota
22 Mar 2024 05:47 GMT
… the public health system. National health insurance exists, but the health authorities have … same conditions as private hospitals, over-testing and over-diagnosing patients. It … ,000 doctors added under this policy specialize in cosmetic and aesthetic medicine …
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Patients pay thousands at longevity clinics. Are they snake oil or the future of health care?
14 Mar 2024 14:11 GMT
… . Preventive Services Task Force deems medically necessary — which means they come … have direct access to the doctor. Other testing and services cost … to traditional health care, which is often concerned with over-testing and over …
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What to know about harmful medical myths that affect Black people
15 Nov 2023 10:11 GMT
… care and potential long-term health consequences.
Some healthcare professionals … lead to unnecessary supplementation and medical overtesting.
The stereotype that Black … Seek competent healthcare professionals: Choose doctors who are culturally competent and …
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Jeffrey Reel: This is what socialized medicine and insurance look like
24 Sep 2023 10:42 GMT
… attempting to socialize the American medical and insurance systems with initiatives … nature of socialized medicine.
Critics of universal health care do believe … (thus overprescribing, overtesting, etc.). Health outcomes be damned.
My health needs will never …
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Medical myths: Common treatments that may be doing you more harm than good
12 Aug 2023 18:01 GMT
… thinking from medics and greater health literacy among patients.
“Many doctors agree with … Derek Sherwood and Waikato emergency medicine doctor John Bonning. They are behind … that of the US, where overtesting and overtreatment have reached “grotesque …