Why People Tend to Overuse Healthcare Interventions
This nice piece in Time Magazine by Maia Szalavitz provides some clues about our major problem of overuse. Ms. Szalavitz documents the convincing power of anecdotes compared to statistics which are poorly understood by most people. She provides a really nice example of decision support from the Harding Center for Risk Literacy for prostate cancer screening that illustrates graphically how prostate cancer screening is likely to create more harms than benefits. For more information go to—
