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How much medicine is too much?
Too much medicine: symptoms matter
BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1454 (Published 02 April 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l1454- H Gilbert Welch, general internist
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Godlee lists some efforts “to pull back the harms and waste of medical excess” as well as a caution.1 I am struck, however, that the caution applies to a fundamentally different category of medical care.
The listed examples of too much medicine—routine monitoring in …
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