"How Many Contemporary Medical Practices Are Worse Than Doing Nothing or Doing Less?"

"How many contemporary medical practices are not any better than or are worse than doing nothing or doing something else that is simpler or less expensive? This is an important question, given the negative repercussions for patients and the health care system of continuing to endorse futile, inefficient, expensive, or harmful interventions, tests, or management strategies."

"After 65 yrs of RCTs, ineffective, harmful, expensive medical ...more frequently..other time in history of medicine" http://t.co/zON4NtBlR6

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 25, 2013

Drone could deliver defibrillators to heart attack victims (Wired UK) http://t.co/uzeeyxLG5c

— Jean Michel Billaut (@Billaut) August 26, 2013