How to Use overtreatment in a Sentence
overtreatment
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If ever there was an example of overtreatment, this is it.
—Rita Numerof, Forbes, 27 June 2022
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The financial cost of this overtreatment is staggering.
—David Ropeik, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
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Issues of over-diagnosis and overtreatment would have to be addressed.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
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Even so, other physicians noted overtreatment can be an easy trap to fall into with high-profile patients.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
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Prostate cancer screening with the PSA blood test is no longer recommended for men 70 and older because of the risk of false positives or overtreatment.
—Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
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The debate over whether early detection causes overtreatment or saves lives has not been settled, but cancer centers want patients to come back.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 4 Aug. 2020
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To be sure, given the horrifying consequences of rabies, preventive measures must err on the side of overtreatment.
—Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
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This has led to overtreatment of men who didn't need biopsies or whose cancers would never have become dangerous and undertreatment of those whose tumors were missed.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
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Previous studies found that the tests prevented 1 death for every 23 men diagnosed, and that resulted in overtreatment.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 May 2022
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Lund is an outlier, an extreme example of a dentist engaging in overtreatment.
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
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But the doctors who reviewed the cases noted that aggressive overtreatment is all too common among doctors — especially with patients who do not have the resources to seek a second opinion.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
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Another recent study in King County, Washington, found a similar rate of overtreatment.
—Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
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Studies have found that about a quarter of health care spending is wasteful, whether because of overtreatment, overpricing, fraud and abuse, or problems with health care coordination and delivery.
—Michelle Andrews, Fortune, 16 May 2022
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Blood clots are increasingly recognized as a source of fatal or disabling complications, but overtreatment could lead to bleeding.
—Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
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Unfortunately, overtreatment is a problem at many area practices.
—Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
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Vit-D-Kids compared inadequate treatment and overtreatment, according to Natanson.
—Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
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But medicine has become a business replete with overdiagnosis and overtreatment—and skyrocketing medical charges.
—Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2020
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And this particular problem of overtreatment, unnecessary treatment, is very poorly studied.
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
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And overtreatment can have unintended long-term consequences, Forche said, not only because the radiation can have serious and unpleasant side effects, but because in most cases, the breast can only be irradiated once.
—Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
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Guaranteeing that the benefits outweigh any harm from overdiagnosis, overtreatment, false results and complications.
—Yair Paska, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
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