How Medical Education is Shifting the Focus to Choosing Wisely?
Just like ‘too little care’, ‘too much care’ could also be detrimental to patients. Over the past few decades, the testing and treatment options in the medical education arena have increased manifold. The patients are being subjected to over-testing and over-treatment which is leading to consequences like unnecessary surgeries, physical sufferings, painful side effects and financial losses that impacts the household budgets severely. Initiative to Prevent Waste and Risks in Healthcare To prevent such waste and risks in the healthcare system, associated with unnecessary treatment, Choosing Wisely initiative has been introduced. The initiative urges the leading specialty societies and other organizations to identify medical tests and procedures in which the necessity should be questioned and consequences should be discussed with patients. Originally conceived and piloted by the National Physicians Alliance through an ABIM Foundation-funded Putting the Charter into Prac...