Defensive medicine, to prevent malpractice claims, are far higher costs than medical personnel, but the United States shift to government health care is going to add a third component. Tests will be free and people will demand them.
Dr. Alai Tan, a senior biostatistician in the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Sealy Center on Aging and lead author of a new study has concluded that providing better access to health care may lead to the overuse of mammograms for women who regularly see a primary care physician and who have a limited life expectancy.
Screening women in this category could subject them to greater risks of physical, emotional and economic suffering but it could happen anyway.
A fall coronavirus surge in Texas that is showing no signs of abating has taken its toll on hospitals across the state, with intensive care unit beds in critically short supply, raising grave concerns about the ability of the state s health care system to properly treat patients stricken with COVID-19, as well other illnesses.
At least 50 Texas hospitals are at more than 98% capacity, including 27 hospitals with completely full ICUs, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dozens of Texas cities are at more than 90% ICU capacity, including Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio, according to an analysis of the data by the University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project.