BMJ\u00a0 |\u00a0 Jeanne Lenzer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– Overly aggressive treatment is estimated to cause 30 000 deaths among Medicare recipients alone each year. Overall, unnecessary interventions are estimated to account for 10-30% of spending on healthcare in the US, or $250bn-800bn (\u00a3154bn-490bn; \u20ac190bn-610bn) annually.<\/p>\n
This video features Shannon Brownlee, acting director of the New America Health Policy Program and author of Overtreated: How Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,<\/em> David Himmelstein, professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health, and Vikas Saini, a Harvard cardiologist and president of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation.\u00a0 Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BMJ\u00a0 |\u00a0 Jeanne Lenzer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– Overly aggressive treatment is estimated to cause 30 000 deaths among Medicare recipients alone each year. Overall, unnecessary interventions are estimated to account for 10-30% of <\/p>\n