Too much medicine; too little care

Editorial

Paul Glasziou et al. BMJ. 2013.

. 2013 Jul 2:347:f4247.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4247.

No abstract available

Comment in

Beware the rise of commercial "mole checking" shops on high streets.
Weller RB. Weller RB. BMJ. 2013 Jul 30;347:f4724. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4724. BMJ. 2013. PMID: 23900817 No abstract available.
Direct to consumer unproved screening tests turn a profit in Japan.
Tokuda Y, Feldman MD. Tokuda Y, et al. BMJ. 2013 Jul 30;347:f4725. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4725. BMJ. 2013. PMID: 23900818 No abstract available.
Problem based learning, litigation, and EWTD contribute to too much medicine.
Samadian S, Farhat A. Samadian S, et al. BMJ. 2013 Jul 30;347:f4790. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4790. BMJ. 2013. PMID: 23900824 No abstract available.
CANTABmobile and its misleading promotion.
Gordon PJ. Gordon PJ. BMJ. 2013 Oct 15;347:f5597. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f5597. BMJ. 2013. PMID: 24129373 No abstract available.
Sobriety in surgery (as well).
Slim K, Canis M. Slim K, et al. J Visc Surg. 2023 Dec;160(6):398-401. doi: 10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2023.06.002. Epub 2023 Jun 17. J Visc Surg. 2023. PMID: 37336648 No abstract available.

When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found.
Wiener RS, Schwartz LM, Woloshin S. Wiener RS, et al. BMJ. 2013 Jul 2;347:f3368. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3368. BMJ. 2013. PMID: 23820021 Free PMC article. No abstract available.