Sessions and Themes
- Shifting the paradigm: Vikas Saini
- Magical thinking and Modern medicine: Harvey Fineberg
- What makes us do it?
- What will it take to get us there?: Don Berwick
- What are the knowledge gaps in avoiding avoidable care?
- Case discussions
- What are the ethical issues?
- Medical journals and the issue of avoidable care
- The schizophrenic life of the hospital CEO
- A reason to change: Shannon Brownlee
- Social responsibility of physicians: Bernard Lown
- Behavior-changing Best practices
- Global dimensions of unnecessary care: Julio Frenk
- Payment mechanisms and the Culture of medicine
- Choosing wisely and beyond: What are the next steps?
- How can patients help drive the needed change?
Conference news
“Overtreatment, over here”
Editor’s Choice, BMJ
“Dr. Bernard Lown speaks out against overtreatment”
The Boston Globe Magazine
“Can More Be Done With Less?”
Internal Medicine News
“Preventing overdiagnosis”
Editor’s Choice, BMJ
“PSA Testing, Like a Lot of Other Procedures, May Do More Harm Than Good, Some Doctors Argue”
The Daily Beast
“The ills of money-driven medicine”
The Bangor Daily News
“Elizabeth Loder on tackling unnecessary treatment in the US: This time it feels different“
BMJ Group Blogs
“Doctors should take responsibility for cutting unnecessary procedures”
The Boston Globe
“Experts consider how to tackle overtreatment in US healthcare”
News, BMJ
“Avoidable care conference foments revolution”
Healthcare Finance News
“62 Years Later, The Meeting Dr. Bernard Lown Was Waiting For”
CommonHealth, 90.9 WBUR
“At a conference on avoidable care, experts say malpractice lawsuits not the central issue”
White Coat Notes, The Boston Globe
“Cutting back on unnecessary medical tests and procedures”
The Diane Rehm Show, WWAM 88.5 NPR
“Doctors target overtreatment”
WBUR radio discussion
“Do patients want more care or less?”
The New York Times
“Forty-five medical tests patients and doctors should question”
Chicago Tribune
”Lown conference to focus on overtreatment”
The Boston Globe
