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  • Doctors call for end to five cancer tests, treatments

    04/04/2012 8:32:34 AM PDT · by jakerobins · 19 replies
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a move that threatens to further inflame concerns about the rationing of medical care, the nation's leading association of cancer physicians issued a list on Wednesday of five common tests and treatments that doctors should stop offering to cancer patients. The list emerged from a two-year effort, similar to a project other medical specialties are undertaking, to identify procedures that do not help patients live longer or better or that may even be harmful, yet are routinely prescribed
  • Many in US get too much medical care: survey (get ready for Obamacare rationing)

    09/26/2011 8:39:55 PM PDT · by Clairity · 27 replies
    Breitbart ^ | Sept. 26, 2011 | AFP
    Forty-two percent of US doctors believe that their patients are getting too much medical care, according to a survey published Monday which suggests fears of malpractice suits may be to blame. A total of 28 percent said they felt they were treating their patients too aggressively, while 45 percent said one of every 10 patients they saw daily had issues that could have been dealt with by phone, by email or by a nurse. Forty percent said they did not have enough time to spend with patients. The results are based on a mail survey that was filled out by...