The Emergency Room: Overtreatment as a Symptom of our System
About this episode
The episode discusses the dangers of overtreatment in emergency rooms and the reliance on protocols over patient history.
The Emergency Room can be life saving, but also can be a place to be feared. We discuss several cases in which protocols and robotic thinking put patients in precarious positions, exposing them to unnecessary dangers, creating diseases where none exist, and base diagnosis more on tests that should have never been ordered rather than on a history and physical and common sense. We talk about two issues about which we have written articles. By clicking the hyperlinks you can access t...
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