RT Journal
A1 Katz MH, Grady D, Redberg RF
T1 UNdertreatment improves, but overtreatment does not
JF JAMA Internal Medicine
JO JAMA Internal Medicine
YR 2013
FD January 28
VO 173
IS 2
SP 93
OP 93
DO 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2361
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2361
AB 
When we launched the “Less Is More” series, it was with the goal of correcting what we see as a prevalent bias in American medicine: that more care (more diagnostic tests, more treatments, more procedures) is better care. As modern medicine has produced some spectacular interventions, including antibiotics for infections, antiretroviral agents for persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection, detailed imaging through computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging to obviate the need for diagnostic surgery, it is not surprising that physicians and our patients think that more diagnostic tests and treatments are always better.