"Death is not inevitable"; why society's beliefs fuel overtreatment by BMJ talk medicine published on 2014-10-15T09:39:26Z Our whole society views risk in medicine wrongly, argue Jerome Hoffman and Hemal Kanzaria from the University of California Los Angeles. In this podcast they slay some strongly held myths about medicine's ability to heal, and say that one of our big beliefs, that death is not inevitable, is leading to overtreatment. Read their full analysis of the situation: http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5702 For more information about overdiagnosis and overtreatment, visit www.bmj.com/too-much-medicine Genre Science
