Dr. Atul Gawande explores why too much medical care is bad for your health, and your budget

Dr. Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker, Overkill, looks at the problem of over testing, over diagnosis and over treatment in the health system.

“Often, these are fishing expeditions, and since no one is perfectly normal you tend to find a lot of fish. If you look closely and often enough, almost everyone will have a little nodule that can’t completely be explained, a lab result that is a bit off, a heart tracing that doesn’t look quite right.” 

The full article can be found here.