Less Is More in Medicine (opens in new tab)

by at In modern medicine, the zeitgeist today seems to be captured in one word: "more." We need more MRI machines, more screenings, more surgical interventions, more drugs, more doctors. More. More. More. Like the internal logic of capitalism that is built on eternal growth, so too is our health care system. Given this ever-expanding demand, we need to be asking some hard questions about whether sending even more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns...