How to Use overtreatment in a Sentence

overtreatment

noun

• If ever there was an example of overtreatment, this is it.
  — Rita Numerof, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• The financial cost of this overtreatment is staggering.
  — David Ropeik, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
• Issues of over-diagnosis and overtreatment would have to be addressed.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lund is an outlier, an extreme example of a dentist engaging in overtreatment.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
• 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
• Another recent study in King County, Washington, found a similar rate of overtreatment.
  — Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Unfortunately, overtreatment is a problem at many area practices.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• Vit-D-Kids compared inadequate treatment and overtreatment, according to Natanson.
  — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• But medicine has become a business replete with overdiagnosis and overtreatment—and skyrocketing medical charges.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2020
• And this particular problem of overtreatment, unnecessary treatment, is very poorly studied.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
• 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
• Guaranteeing that the benefits outweigh any harm from overdiagnosis, overtreatment, false results and complications.
  — Yair Paska, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024