Medical waste: 90 more don’ts for your doctor

With the cost of health care on the rise, the Foundation of the American Board of Internal Medicine has sponsored the Choosing Wisely campaign, which has expanded a list of procedures physicians shouldn’t do from 45 last year to a whopping 135 this year. The point isn’t to ration care that people need; the point is that more procedures does not necessarily mean better care, and plenty of procedures are simply wasteful, with no positive health effect. For a short list of some of the more interesting “don’t” procedure, read on.