by Don Ingwerson Medical overtreatment is leading us to “be sicker and poorer” according to Shannon Brownlee, acting director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation. Brownlee describes the medical scenario that leads her to this conclusion as: “Sometimes the test leads you down a path, a therapeutic cascade, where you start to tumble downstream to more
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by Don Ingwerson Article first published in Blogcritics. There is much in the news about medical over diagnoses and overtreatment, but where is this information going to lead us? Elizabeth Loder, BMJ research editor, reported that the general consensus at an Avoiding Avoidable Care conference was, “US healthcare costs are unsustainable and a large amount of money is being wasted
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by Don Ingwerson Article first published on Blogciritcs Are we limiting our view of how to maintain health? I was just reading an article by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director–General of the World Health Organization (WHO) where she stated that modern medicine as we know it could be coming to an end. How could that be? Well, she claimed that every
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by Don Ingwerson While serving as a public school administrator, I dealt directly with district leadership who would often direct teachers to take care of all educational instruction. Homework was generally discouraged because it was thought that parents might confuse students, since new methods were unfamiliar to parents. Remember modern math versus traditional math, look-and-say reading programs, whole language instruction,
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by Don Ingwerson Article first published on Blogcritics. Our family enjoys coming together at least once a year to share past experiences and hopes for the future. Occasionally, the discussion veers into politics, opinions on public personalities, or health. Good intentions at the beginning of discussions don’t always end with good results, though. H. Gilbert Welch expressed a similar parallel
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