Shannon Brownlee in Cherokee Scout (SC) | 'A Senior Moment: They're draining us with care'

Communications — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:15:00 -0400

We may be hurting or even killing ourselves with too much health care. That’s according to a study by Dr. Elliot Fisher, a noted Dartmouth researcher.

In an article by Shannon Brownlee, the author of “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,” in AARP, The Magazine, Fisher stated that in his study he found that as many as 30,000 people on Medicare died annually due to unnecessary care.

Brownlee believes doctors are giving us too much care – care we may not need, and that actually may be harming us. We are sent for X-rays, MRIs, CTs, invasive surgeries and other specialized procedures that may or may not be needed. LINK