Sentences with phrase «patients more harm than good»
With the exception of fish oil, antioxidant supplements do heart patients more harm than good.
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It usually does the victim (er, «patient») more harm than good trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
But whether we style ourselves religious activists or quietists, the fundamental ecology of history is such that even our best acts or most patient waiting can produce more ultimate harm than good; the very best we can do is more good than harm.
Told me that OB - led hospital births «do more harm than they do good» and that she believes it is her job to «protect» her patients from standard hospital care.
Are doctors keeping their patients safe by freely prescribing antibiotics, Newman asks, or are they doing more harm than good?
This episode highlights a growing challenge for patients: how to temper enthusiasm for experimental therapies, now widely and effectively marketed through personal testimonials posted online, until evidence shows that the treatments are likely to do more good than harm.
Treatment of patients with thyrotropin levels at or below 10 mIU / L without symptoms may cause more harm than good and may represent overtreatment.
«Electronic alerts may do more harm than good for kidney patients.»
«We're concerned these screenings may prompt cancer treatment among elderly men that ultimately has a very low likelihood of benefiting the patient and paradoxically can cause more harm than good.»
Hashimoto's patients are particularly sensitive to foods like gluten, dairy, soy and eggs so this diet does more harm than good.
It truly needs to be an assembly line that get sick patients in one side and out the other, with a handful of prescriptions that will probably do more harm than good.
Medication Errors When patients are given the wrong medication or the wrong dosage of a certain medicine, it can do more harm than good.
One of Dr. Green's most haunting concerns is the rise of «patients in waiting» who spend their lives in anxiety, undergoing unnecessary tests and potentially doing themselves more harm than good.