Thread by @TheWonkologist

I don't wish this idea would go away. I wish this idea would increase.

Unnecessary stress tests:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken/status/1156573800244350982

Chemotherapy to patients at the end of life:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22942834
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Which drugs we use to treat breast cancer:
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23124970

What kinds of surgery we use to treat breast cancer:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12785561
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Whether or not we recommend surgery to patients:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368599
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Whether we order unnecessary imaging for headache and back pain:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28973068
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What drugs we use to treat several cancer types:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16522584
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How many biopsies we do when we are looking for prostate cancer:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22492891
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Whether or not we do procedures for the treatment of bladder cancer:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26582063
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Whether or not we recommend cataract removal:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16344447
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A good review of the literature (as of 2012) by Robertson, @akesselheim &co:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23061573
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Perhaps, believing a treatment will help patients is necessary-but-not-sufficient to motivate us docs to do it?

Is this a biased review of the literature?
Know of any studies to the contrary?
Change my mind and send them my way!
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I think this is where I’m supposed to say, “thanks for coming to my TED talk”