5 responses to “Environmental impacts of clinical practice: reducing unnecessary care”

  1. This is an excellent article. Now we all need to do this!

  2. This is a bright look at the positive role that a physician can play in looking after our patients in all senses (their short term health, their long term health, and their environment which affects the former two).

  3. I find a lot of patients come to me asking for dubious hormone tests that their naturopath wants them to have, to have dubious treatments, which I always refuse.
    Great article and agree with it wholeheartedly.

  4. I would like to thank you very much for the article. Young and “a long time in the field” physicians and health care providers need to be always reinforced and remainder that we are part of a whole and everything implies in responsibility, risk and benefit. Looking for a better world now, and for our children….

  5. Absolutely right on!
    I’m a late career specialist, 40 years in the business, and shocked by the number of inappropriate, unnecessary laboratory investigations that have been done for patients referred to me (while the ones that would actually be of value have not).
    Does anybody really need to be screened for hypothyroidism 5 times in one year?
    Does EVERYBODY, including adolescents, need a comprehensive metabolic panel with every appointment?
    Thank you. I hope a lot of our colleagues will be reading this and taking it to heart.

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