Too Much Medical Care Can Be Unhealthy

And no one should be given steroids and similar nasty, broad based "fixers" without being told the multiple health implications of taking them. In fact, the patient should have to sign a most explicit informed consent. Since illnesses are holistic,redundant processes over multiple pathways,most medicines are doomed to fail, but they are also doomed to effect unintended consequences on other pathways. Much like the scans, the xrays and the lot. Since the body desperately strives to be well and most of us have the genes to make that happen,, we'd be better off helping it stay out of the way of all this medical care.