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Professional societies of doctors, surgeons or physiotherapists are more likely to recommend against treatments provided by others, our new research shows.
A colonoscopy is usually done to diagnose bowel cancer. It is an invasive procedure with risks such as bowel perforation. It’s important to only have the test if you’re likely to benefit.
Rates of spinal fusion surgery for back pain are on the rise. This is despite little evidence that it’s an effective procedure and studies showing many will have revision surgery within ten years.
Testing some genes for Alzheimer’s disease, coeliac disease and folate conversion does not lead to improved health outcomes, and may create anxiety or false hope amongst patients.
Harm doesn’t just come in the form of side-effects or further testing. The “cons” of any treatment also include the costs, which can be financial, emotional, and the costs of the individual’s time.
To avoid ineffective treatments, we need a new way to identify and reduce questionable care. A new Grattan Institute report shows how to do it.
By forgetting that medicine postpones death rather than saving lives, we persuade ourselves it might somehow keep extending our life and come to view death as a failure of medicine.
People develop a long-term problem after an episode of back pain if they expect to not recover. Steps by the medical sector to avoid catatrophising back pain by not suggesting scans will help.
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Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Bradley Distinguished Professor, Adelaide University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Gastroenterologist & Clinical Epidemiologist, Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University
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Senior Research Manager, University of Sydney and Honorary Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Director of the Centre for Genetics Education, NSW and Clinical Lecturer, Sydney Medical School-Northern, University of Sydney
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Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney