costs to the US health care system for unnecessary tests run

costs to the U.S. health care system for unnecessary tests run into billions of dollars annually. Should this cost factor be something a doctor takes into consideration when deciding about mammograms for women patients younger than age 40?

Solution

Yes, the cost factor should be taken into consideration by a doctor while writing tests like mammograms foe younger women. Because the unnecessary tests checkups cost a lot to the patient later on affecting the overall economic expenditure. The doctors need to listen a to the patient\'s problem carefully. The patient may be in need of a very small care or medicine and not in need of Long tests. But doctors dont listen to the patients and simply write their own predictions in form of too many tests, that are not needed at all.

Women patients below age 40 should not be generally given mammograms testing. Their condition may be very simple, not in need of such serious tests at all. Such tests involve direct exposure to radiations that may be harmful in triggering cancer. So, unless mandatary in certain extreme conditions, the normal women should not be randomly prescribed for such tests. There are many other ways to check probability of a disease.

This practice of careless medication is followed by millions of doctors in US.