Healthcare Assignment Report: Analysis of Healthcare Overuse

This report examines the overuse of healthcare services, emphasizing the need for improved patient-doctor relationships to reduce unnecessary treatments. The assignment discusses how financial incentives and time constraints affect doctors, leading to costly diagnostic tests and treatments. It highlights the importance of doctors spending more time with patients, fostering trust, and promoting evidence-based practices. The report references sources that discuss the challenges in healthcare systems, including financial pressures and the impact on patient care, advocating for a more patient-centric approach to healthcare delivery. The report also mentions that the overuse of the healthcare services symbolizes that the doctors are forcing the patients to undergo very costly treatments without spending much time with the patient.

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The situation that has been described in the assignment is about the overuse of the healthcare
systems. The writer has described about the importance of reducing the use of health care
services. According to the writer, people are overusing the healthcare services meaninglessly.
The surest way to reduce the excess use of the healthcare system is to build a trustworthy
relationship with the doctors. It is very important for the doctors to talk directly with the patient
so that the patients can understand what is best for them and they must use the best available
treatment methods (Nassery et al., 2015). People visit the doctors with the hope of receiving the
best available practices. The overuse of the healthcare system symbolizes that fact that the
doctors are forcing the patients to undergo very costly treatments without spending much time
with the patient. This happens because nowadays the insurers discourage the doctors from
spending more time with the patient. The doctors are becoming more reluctant with their works.
The doctors force the patients to undergo the latest treatment methods otherwise they will lose
the income from this. The hospital will lose income as the patient will not undergo the diagnostic
tests. The doctor and the nurses will lose the incentives associated with the diagnoses of the
patient. This incidences need to be reduced and the doctors should not indulge themselves in the
malpractice of earning incentives. They must treat the patients with patience and should spend
more time with them (Brownlee et al., 2017).
Source- ny times. (2019). Retrieved 18 September 2019, from
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/opinion/l12leonhardt.html’

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Reference
Brownlee, S., Chalkidou, K., Doust, J., Elshaug, A. G., Glasziou, P., Heath, I., ... & Korenstein,
D. (2017). Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world. The
Lancet, 390(10090), 156-168.
Nassery, N., Segal, J. B., Chang, E., & Bridges, J. F. (2015). Systematic overuse of healthcare
services: a conceptual model. Applied health economics and health policy, 13(1), 1-6.