Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care

<p>We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.</p><br><p>Guests:</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-niess-29044882/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Meredith Niess, MD, MPH</a>, Clinical Academic Resource Director, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Novant Health</p><p><a href="https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/231" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH</a>, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital</p><p><a href="https://www.rand.org/about/people/d/damberg_cheryl_l.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cheryl Damberg, PhD, MPH</a>, Principal Senior Economist and Director, RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-weingarten-31b09411/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH</a>, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Chief Innovation Officer, SCAN Health Plan</p><br><p>Read a full transcript and dig deeper into the issues explored in today's episode <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/2022/03/03/cascades-low-value-care/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on our website</a>.</p><br><p>Support this type of journalism today by <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">making a donation</a>.</p><br><p><a href="https://open.acast.com/shows/61435631f581aac8b8520e65/episodes/bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sign up for our weekly newsletter</a> to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff.</p><br><p>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.c