Listen "Is there such a thing as 'too much medicine'?"
Episode Synopsis
The OECD estimates around 20% of all health care activity and expenditure in high-income countries is wasted and of little or no value. Much of this waste is driven by over-diagnosis and over-treatment – when patients receive services that could never really have helped them.
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