{"id":2023,"date":"2019-08-28T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:14:31","slug":"why-doctors-still-offer-treatments-that-may-not-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Why Doctors Still Offer Treatments That May Not Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<div class=\"post-date\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/white-gold\/images\/calendar-icon.png\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0August 28, 2019 at 7:00 am\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/white-gold\/images\/user-icon.png\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0Austin Frakt\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<em>The following originally appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/26\/upshot\/why-doctors-still-offer-treatments-that-may-not-help.html\">The Upshot<\/a>\u00a0(copyright 2019, The New York Times Company). It also appeared in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-Un_proven-As_sump_tions-Be_come-Com_mon-Health-Care-Prac_tice.pdf\">print edition<\/a>\u00a0on August 15, 2019.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">When your doctor gives you health advice, and your insurer pays for the recommended treatment, you probably presume it\u2019s based on solid evidence. But\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/01\/health\/medical-myths-doctors.html?module=inline\">a great deal<\/a>\u00a0of clinical practice that\u2019s covered by private insurers and public programs isn\u2019t.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/why-doctors-still-offer-treatments-that-may-not-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0August 28, 2019 at 7:00 am\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Austin Frakt\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0The following originally appeared on\u00a0The Upshot\u00a0(copyright 2019, The New York Times Company). It also appeared in the\u00a0print edition\u00a0on August 15, 2019. When <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2023\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[782,397,698,783],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-how-to-for-patients","tag-evidence-based-health-policy","tag-evidence-based-medicine","tag-medical-overuse","tag-upshot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}