25 September 2021 - Doctors are routinely over-diagnosing and over-treating conditions that do not require medical intervention, sometimes carrying out unnecessary surgery exposing patients to risk and ongoing pain, according to two internationally renowned researchers.

Professor Rachelle Buchbinder, a Melbourne rheumatologist and professor at Monash University, and Professor Ian Harris, a Sydney orthopaedic surgeon and clinical researchers at the University of NSW, say about one-third of medical care is of “no value”, while 10% is actually harmful.

Read The Australian article