Practising alcoholics are firm believers that, if some is good, more must be better. Sometimes, for a change of pace, they will say that, if a thing is worth doing, it's worth overdoing. Only rarely do they realise that this approach to life doesn't really work. A few of them actually stop drinking and get sober.
The average American with decent medical insurance behaves just like an alcoholic and, while some of the care that they get is worthwhile, there is much that is harmful when it is not just a waste of hard earned money.
Try taking a lesson from Nancy Reagan and, the next time that a doctor wants to perform some expensive and painful procedures, just say 'No'. If that is too radical a course of action, then ask this question: "what are the consequences if I say no?"
If everyone acted with appropriate scepticism to the treatments peddled by the medical industry, we might all be a little healthier and a lot richer.
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