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majority audience for this article then the name "unnecessary health care" would be better. "Overtreatment" is another good name for this concept but the content of this article describes types of overutilization and unnecessary health care which may not be "overtreatment". If anyone has comments about the best name for this article then share.
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I changed the name of the article from "overutilization" to "unnecessary health care". I am not sure what the correct name is. The most common term in medical literature is "overutilization". However, I do not feel that this is a term which is used by non-professionals, and I thought since that was a
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You don't appear to understand what this article is about, Kku. Nothing I said would imply we should purge defensive medicine, which i explicitly mentioned. If you want to keep at this, please actually read this article and before you reply again.
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