为什么过度检查和诊治会在全球泛滥?有几个原因不可忽视。一是生物医学和医疗专业拼命追求利润和赚钱,二是对预防医学的误解和医学人文精神的缺失或异化,三是对高科技的盲目崇拜。今天,日益严重的过度医疗现象让人担忧。界定过度医疗尽管有一定难度和相当的复杂性,但也并非不可能。包括美国心脏病学会(ACC)、美国临床肿瘤学会(ASCO)在内的美国九大医学组织对过度医疗下了一个简单的定义:过度医疗是指超过疾病实际需求的诊断和治疗的行为,包括过度检查和过度治疗。从时间先后说,首先是有过度检查,然后才有过度 Why over-inspection and diagnosis and treatment will be rampant in the world? There are several reasons can not be ignored. First, biomedical and medical professions desperately pursuing profits and making money. Second, they misunderstand preventive medicine and the lack of medical and humanistic spirit. Third, blind worship of high technology. Today, the worsening over-medical phenomenon is worrying. Defining over-medical treatment is not impossible, despite its degree of difficulty and considerable complexity. The nine major U.S. medical organizations, including the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (USA), have a simple definition of over-medical care: over-care refers to the diagnosis and treatment of more than the actual needs of the disease, including Over-inspection and over-treatment. From time to time said, the first is over-checked, and then there is excessive