obviously this is all very much speculation but if true it suggests the shooter was not the victim of his insurer but of provider overtreatment, the thing that everyone was saying didn’t exist two days ago
December 9, 2024 at 9:01 PM
obviously this is all very much speculation but if true it suggests the shooter was not the victim of his insurer but of provider overtreatment, the thing that everyone was saying didn’t exist two days ago
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#Overtreatment of #prostatecancer persists, especially using #radiotherapy.
This continues to be the biggest barrier to equitable #populationscreening for #earlydetection.
We must stop doing it.
#activesurveillance @uroweb.bsky.social
#Overtreatment of #prostatecancer persists, especially using #radiotherapy.
This continues to be the biggest barrier to equitable #populationscreening for #earlydetection.
We must stop doing it.
#activesurveillance @uroweb.bsky.social
Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer Among Men With Limited Longevity in the Active Surveillance Era
This cohort study examines if rates of overtreatment of men with prostate cancer with limited life expectancy have persisted in the active surveillance era and whether overtreatment varies by tumor ri...
jamanetwork.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:38 AM
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#Overtreatment of #prostatecancer persists, especially using #radiotherapy.
This continues to be the biggest barrier to equitable #populationscreening for #earlydetection.
We must stop doing it.
#activesurveillance @uroweb.bsky.social
#Overtreatment of #prostatecancer persists, especially using #radiotherapy.
This continues to be the biggest barrier to equitable #populationscreening for #earlydetection.
We must stop doing it.
#activesurveillance @uroweb.bsky.social
An excellent piece published today by a great friend and wonderful health care journalist, Gary Schwitzer, the founder and publisher of the Health News Review.
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment in dentistry
More informed public dialogue would be helpful for all
open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment in dentistry
More informed public dialogue would be helpful for all
open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment in dentistry
More informed public dialogue would be helpful for all
open.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:38 AM
An excellent piece published today by a great friend and wonderful health care journalist, Gary Schwitzer, the founder and publisher of the Health News Review.
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment in dentistry
More informed public dialogue would be helpful for all
open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment in dentistry
More informed public dialogue would be helpful for all
open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
The whole overdiagnosis / overtreatment panic needs to stop. It's driven by the culture of belly-banging in medicine's management class. Confident certainty is what gets you up the ladder, so anything they can't wrap their heads around (new, complex, evolving) gets ducked by blaming it on patients .
September 25, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The whole overdiagnosis / overtreatment panic needs to stop. It's driven by the culture of belly-banging in medicine's management class. Confident certainty is what gets you up the ladder, so anything they can't wrap their heads around (new, complex, evolving) gets ducked by blaming it on patients .
The amazing physician-philosopher Ben Chin-Yee and a recent Cambridge HPS graduate on cancer diagnosis as an Austinian speech act with illocutionary consequences that are not what they should be. A really striking essay! #philsci #philsky #MedHum #bioethics
The word ‘cancer’ leads to overtreatment and fear. Should we drop it? | Aeon Essays
Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all?
aeon.co
July 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The amazing physician-philosopher Ben Chin-Yee and a recent Cambridge HPS graduate on cancer diagnosis as an Austinian speech act with illocutionary consequences that are not what they should be. A really striking essay! #philsci #philsky #MedHum #bioethics
recommend against routine PSA screening in men over 70 because the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment outweigh the benefits. Even if screening were done, it doesn’t guarantee a diagnosis. False negatives happen. Many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain asymptomatic for years.
May 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
recommend against routine PSA screening in men over 70 because the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment outweigh the benefits. Even if screening were done, it doesn’t guarantee a diagnosis. False negatives happen. Many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain asymptomatic for years.
“Easy peasy”? Global budgeting is an aggressive cost control mechanism that incentivizes hospitals to ration care. It “solves” the problem of overtreatment by refusing to pay for it. It’s not conceptually different than, say, insurers refusing to pay for additional anesthesia time
M4A solves this problem in the exact same way Canada does, with global budgeting. Easy peasy
prospect.org/health/best-...
prospect.org/health/best-...
December 25, 2024 at 8:53 PM
“Easy peasy”? Global budgeting is an aggressive cost control mechanism that incentivizes hospitals to ration care. It “solves” the problem of overtreatment by refusing to pay for it. It’s not conceptually different than, say, insurers refusing to pay for additional anesthesia time
Why has US GDP growth outpaced other rich nations? One reason: healthcare. The disconnect between high spending & poor outcomes matters — the US generates more GDP *because* of its inefficiencies: high prices, overtreatment & weak prevention. FT’s conclusion? “GDP is a deceptive measure of welfare.”
May 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Why has US GDP growth outpaced other rich nations? One reason: healthcare. The disconnect between high spending & poor outcomes matters — the US generates more GDP *because* of its inefficiencies: high prices, overtreatment & weak prevention. FT’s conclusion? “GDP is a deceptive measure of welfare.”
💯 this 👇
Public health screwed up - that's the bottom line for everything related to the pandemic.
👉Public health screwed up 👈
Now they're trying to bury the consequences by stirring up a moral panic about "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment", and making up anything-but-COVID just so stories.
Public health screwed up - that's the bottom line for everything related to the pandemic.
👉Public health screwed up 👈
Now they're trying to bury the consequences by stirring up a moral panic about "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment", and making up anything-but-COVID just so stories.
These metrics represent a PUBLIC HEALTH failure, not a public failure as CMOHs want you to believe.
You-do-you + Pro-infection promotion of hybrid immunity & immunity debt + 'only the vulnerable' ➡️ crappy uptake and ⬆️ anti-vax sentiment. No masks even during respiratory season. UTTER FAIL.
You-do-you + Pro-infection promotion of hybrid immunity & immunity debt + 'only the vulnerable' ➡️ crappy uptake and ⬆️ anti-vax sentiment. No masks even during respiratory season. UTTER FAIL.
It's STILL a pandemic (WHO has not ended it). Also, COVID is NOT a respiratory virus - it is AIRBORNE virus. Two different things.
TBC, COVID is vaccine-reduceable NOT preventable. VE against hosp '24-'25 was only ~44% (NACI). Tired of this dishonesty. #MaskUP FFS!
www.cihi.ca/en/priority-...
TBC, COVID is vaccine-reduceable NOT preventable. VE against hosp '24-'25 was only ~44% (NACI). Tired of this dishonesty. #MaskUP FFS!
www.cihi.ca/en/priority-...
April 16, 2026 at 6:25 PM
💯 this 👇
Public health screwed up - that's the bottom line for everything related to the pandemic.
👉Public health screwed up 👈
Now they're trying to bury the consequences by stirring up a moral panic about "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment", and making up anything-but-COVID just so stories.
Public health screwed up - that's the bottom line for everything related to the pandemic.
👉Public health screwed up 👈
Now they're trying to bury the consequences by stirring up a moral panic about "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment", and making up anything-but-COVID just so stories.
Assessing PSA after radical prostatectomy may reduce overtreatment - Yüksel Ürün
@yukselurun.bsky.social
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#Cancer #CancerResearch #ProstateCancer #PSA #Medicine #Health #Oncology #OncoDaily
@yukselurun.bsky.social
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#Cancer #CancerResearch #ProstateCancer #PSA #Medicine #Health #Oncology #OncoDaily
Yüksel Ürün: Assessing PSA after radical prostatectomy may reduce overtreatment - OncoDaily
Yüksel Ürün: Assessing PSA after radical prostatectomy may reduce overtreatment / Anthony V. D'Amico, Bruce J. Trock, cancer, Derya Tilki, Hartwig Huland,
oncodaily.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Assessing PSA after radical prostatectomy may reduce overtreatment - Yüksel Ürün
@yukselurun.bsky.social
oncodaily.com/blog/yuksel-...
#Cancer #CancerResearch #ProstateCancer #PSA #Medicine #Health #Oncology #OncoDaily
@yukselurun.bsky.social
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#Cancer #CancerResearch #ProstateCancer #PSA #Medicine #Health #Oncology #OncoDaily
Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the VA: While low-risk cases decreased, overtreatment of men with limited life expectancy & higher-risk disease rose, mainly with radiotherapy. Clinicians must balance treatment benefits vs toxic effects. @oncoalert.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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January 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the VA: While low-risk cases decreased, overtreatment of men with limited life expectancy & higher-risk disease rose, mainly with radiotherapy. Clinicians must balance treatment benefits vs toxic effects. @oncoalert.bsky.social
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This demonstrably happens when you give people lavish coverage: they start erring on the side of overtreatment and consuming a lot more resources. Rich people spend a lot of money out of pocket on fairly pointless things like body scans. People treat every ache and pain. And so forth.
December 25, 2024 at 10:27 PM
This demonstrably happens when you give people lavish coverage: they start erring on the side of overtreatment and consuming a lot more resources. Rich people spend a lot of money out of pocket on fairly pointless things like body scans. People treat every ache and pain. And so forth.
People talk a lot about ADHD overtreatment, but now that chainsmoking isnt cool and prohibitively expensive, treatment is like night and day. Even just knowing about it.
I still have anxiety and a little smidge of depression, but Vyvanse got me like 90% resolved.
I still have anxiety and a little smidge of depression, but Vyvanse got me like 90% resolved.
this is often right but also it would have saved me a lot of time and heartache if somebody had pointed out that I might be ADHD at any point in the first thirtyfive years or so of my life, so
Hi.
If someone tells you about their depression, anxiety, or even insomnia, try to avoid responding with obvious remedies that they have of course already tried. They’re suffering, not stupid. Also please avoid banal mental reframing efforts and quackery.
Perhaps just listen kindly.
Okay then.
If someone tells you about their depression, anxiety, or even insomnia, try to avoid responding with obvious remedies that they have of course already tried. They’re suffering, not stupid. Also please avoid banal mental reframing efforts and quackery.
Perhaps just listen kindly.
Okay then.
June 15, 2026 at 12:24 PM
People talk a lot about ADHD overtreatment, but now that chainsmoking isnt cool and prohibitively expensive, treatment is like night and day. Even just knowing about it.
I still have anxiety and a little smidge of depression, but Vyvanse got me like 90% resolved.
I still have anxiety and a little smidge of depression, but Vyvanse got me like 90% resolved.
In a new preprint (NOT PEER REVIEWED) we continue to explore the challenge of overtreatment in community screening. It seems the benefits of TB treatment far outweigh the harms, especially once we accept that sputum culture is not perfect. Important food for thought. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Do no harm - re-evaluating the risks of overtreatment in community-wide tuberculosis screening
Background Community-wide screening is a crucial strategy to end tuberculosis (TB), but a common concern is potential harm from overtreatment following false positive diagnoses. However, current refer...
www.medrxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In a new preprint (NOT PEER REVIEWED) we continue to explore the challenge of overtreatment in community screening. It seems the benefits of TB treatment far outweigh the harms, especially once we accept that sputum culture is not perfect. Important food for thought. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
the DIY HRT community is on average better at managing risks than the medical community, in large part because they recognise that *not* taking HRT can constitute a risk
doctors are risk-averse to overtreatment but freely & without compunction risk trans lives with undertreatment
doctors are risk-averse to overtreatment but freely & without compunction risk trans lives with undertreatment
January 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
the DIY HRT community is on average better at managing risks than the medical community, in large part because they recognise that *not* taking HRT can constitute a risk
doctors are risk-averse to overtreatment but freely & without compunction risk trans lives with undertreatment
doctors are risk-averse to overtreatment but freely & without compunction risk trans lives with undertreatment
Hm, apparently it's "overtreatment" and I should "discontinue it immediately". Typical. Romance is dead.
New medication is making my heart flutter -- is this love?
April 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hm, apparently it's "overtreatment" and I should "discontinue it immediately". Typical. Romance is dead.
Thousands of men with prostate cancer facing unnecessary overtreatment, experts warn
Thousands of men with prostate cancer facing unnecessary overtreatment, experts warn
Experts suggest ‘outdated guidelines’ around prostate cancer have created a ‘wild west’ of what is implemented in the NHS
www.independent.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thousands of men with prostate cancer facing unnecessary overtreatment, experts warn
More knowledge about immunotherapy, advanced diagnostics, and reducing overtreatment. Thanks to financial support from KWF Dutch Cancer Society, 13 research teams from the Netherlands Cancer Institute are launching new projects ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
December 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
More knowledge about immunotherapy, advanced diagnostics, and reducing overtreatment. Thanks to financial support from KWF Dutch Cancer Society, 13 research teams from the Netherlands Cancer Institute are launching new projects ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Overtreatment, or inappropriate treatment that pays more is a thing. Doctors are not saints. A vascular surgeon in Michigan got a bunch of people's legs amputated because he was installing devices in their legs they didn't need, because it paid a lot
December 7, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Overtreatment, or inappropriate treatment that pays more is a thing. Doctors are not saints. A vascular surgeon in Michigan got a bunch of people's legs amputated because he was installing devices in their legs they didn't need, because it paid a lot
Overtreatment here can expose people needlessly to increased risks for embolism & bone fracture.
Here's the stated position of the Endocrine Society on appropriate screening & treatment:
Here's the stated position of the Endocrine Society on appropriate screening & treatment:
Statement on Testosterone Replacement Therapy
The Society’s Clinical Practice Guideline on testosterone replacement therapy in men with hypogonadism offers recommendations on appropriate testing and prescribing practices.
www.endocrine.org
July 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Overtreatment here can expose people needlessly to increased risks for embolism & bone fracture.
Here's the stated position of the Endocrine Society on appropriate screening & treatment:
Here's the stated position of the Endocrine Society on appropriate screening & treatment:
On prostate cancer screening.
I chose to screen because of family history - cancer was found (low grade, early stage). I had active surveillance with MRI/biopsy for a few years. Then when it progressed, I had Nanoknife focal therapy. Modern methods allow control with less overtreatment.
#r4today
I chose to screen because of family history - cancer was found (low grade, early stage). I had active surveillance with MRI/biopsy for a few years. Then when it progressed, I had Nanoknife focal therapy. Modern methods allow control with less overtreatment.
#r4today
May 29, 2026 at 7:52 AM
On prostate cancer screening.
I chose to screen because of family history - cancer was found (low grade, early stage). I had active surveillance with MRI/biopsy for a few years. Then when it progressed, I had Nanoknife focal therapy. Modern methods allow control with less overtreatment.
#r4today
I chose to screen because of family history - cancer was found (low grade, early stage). I had active surveillance with MRI/biopsy for a few years. Then when it progressed, I had Nanoknife focal therapy. Modern methods allow control with less overtreatment.
#r4today
The finding calls into question the growing use of MRIs to try to diagnose shoulder pain, and, in turn, the growing problem of overtreatment of rotator cuff abnormalities.
99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
Some adults over 40 have shoulder pain, but nearly all have "abnormal" joints.
arstechnica.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The finding calls into question the growing use of MRIs to try to diagnose shoulder pain, and, in turn, the growing problem of overtreatment of rotator cuff abnormalities.
now online from Tim Daskivich et al - from JAMA Internal Medicine: Overtreatment of #ProstateCancer in men with limited longevity is actually increasing in the active surveillance era
@StanfordUrology
@StanfordCancer
@CedarsSinai
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@StanfordUrology
@StanfordCancer
@CedarsSinai
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer Among Men With Limited Longevity in the Active Surveillance Era
This cohort study examines if rates of overtreatment of men with prostate cancer with limited life expectancy have persisted in the active surveillance era and whether overtreatment varies by tumor ri...
jamanetwork.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:50 PM
now online from Tim Daskivich et al - from JAMA Internal Medicine: Overtreatment of #ProstateCancer in men with limited longevity is actually increasing in the active surveillance era
@StanfordUrology
@StanfordCancer
@CedarsSinai
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@StanfordUrology
@StanfordCancer
@CedarsSinai
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“The explanation is simple: With lax oversight, private-sector, fee-for-service incentives drive overtreatment and profit-seeking that isn't permitted in the VHA.”
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Want Efficiency? Fund the VA and Cut the Proven Waste in Privatized Veterans Care
Faithfully following orders from President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) office, VA Secretary Doug Collins has announced that he will soon fire tens of thousands of employe...
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May 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“The explanation is simple: With lax oversight, private-sector, fee-for-service incentives drive overtreatment and profit-seeking that isn't permitted in the VHA.”
www.military.com/daily-news/o...
www.military.com/daily-news/o...