Too much of a good thing? Overuse of health care: A March 2018 University of Michigan national survey on healthy aging found that doctors and older patients may disagree more often than either suspects about whether a particular medical test or medicine is truly necessary – only 14 percent of people over age 50 believe that more is usually better when it comes to health care, But one in four say their health providers often order tests or prescribe drugs that they don’t think they really need. On the flip side, about 1 in 10 of those polled said their doctor or other health provider had told them that a test or medication they’d asked for wasn’t needed.
