Personally I think doctors are over-treating patients all the time. I know someone who, being treated for back troubles, got fed up and quit all the medications he was given -- and in a few months felt better than he has in years, apparently as soon as he got all the medical crap out of his system.
Doctors Urged Not to Screen Elderly Men for Prostate Cancer
In a move that could lead to significant changes in medical care for older men, a national task force on Monday recommended that doctors stop screening men ages 75 and older for prostate cancer because the search for the disease in this group is causing more harm than good.
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