{"id":939,"date":"2012-08-29T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:21","slug":"overtreatment-is-taking-a-harmful-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Overtreatment Is Taking a Harmful Toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times | August 27, 2012, <em>2:37 pm | <\/em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/tara-parker-pope\/\">TARA PARKER-POPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to medical care, many patients and doctors believe more is better.\u00a0 But an epidemic of overtreatment \u2014 too many scans, too many blood tests, too many procedures \u2014 is costing the nation\u2019s health care system at least $210 billion a year, according to the Institute of Medicine, and taking a human toll in pain, emotional suffering, severe complications and even death.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/27\/overtreatment-is-taking-a-harmful-toll\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times | August 27, 2012, 2:37 pm | By TARA PARKER-POPE When it comes to medical care, many patients and doctors believe more is better.\u00a0 But an <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=939\">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":[4,6],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-medical-overtreatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}