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	Podcast:		Big Ideas - Full program podcast
	Episode:		Why too much medical treatment is causing more harm than good
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:57
	Publish Date:		2022-07-06 10:05:00
	Description:		Much of medicine doesn’t do what it is supposed to do: improve health. That is the view of orthopaedic surgeon, Ian Harris. Ian believes too many drugs are being prescribed, too much surgery is being performed, and there are too many unhelpful tests, scans, and overdiagnosis. The 'business' of medicine, he says, is taking precedence over what the science tells us. We should go back to the first principles of the Hippocratic oath and ‘first, do no harm’.
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