[PEN-L:9433] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Shades of Summers

[frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Ellen Frank)]

sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Medically unnecessary" could span a wide
>range, from hypochondriacs who consume
>resources to no purpose whatsoever, to
>those in varying states of health who choose
>treatments with a very low probability of efficacy,
>partly because the decision to elect such treatments
>doesn't cost them anything.
>
>mbs

Medically unnecessary and inappropriate car usually
refers to treatments prescribed by physicians, not
to those sought by patients.  For example,
antibiotics to treat likely viruses, X-rays of
bones likely unfractured or, if fractured, not
requiring treatment, C-sections without
real justification.

Then again, I don't know where plastic
surgery comes in.

		Ellen





















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