The New Health Dialogue

A Blog from New America's Health Policy Program

"What are the benefits?' What are the risks? Are there alternatives?"

Published:  May 11, 2012
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Those are the final questions in this article on Yahoo! News, under the title "How Much Medicine Do You Need?" The final quote comes from Rita Redberg, editor of the medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine, and pretty much sums up the questions that people ought to ask themselves when considering treatment. There's a lot more in the article that we're not going to summarize--check it out!

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