Discussion: I am an obese patient who often visits doctors. Instead of trying to figure out my situation, I am being sent for countless tests, most of which are unnecessary. Is this a familiar phenomenon?

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I am an obese patient who often visits doctors. Instead of trying to figure out my situation, I am being sent for countless tests, most of which are unnecessary. Is this a familiar phenomenon?

In obese, even at a young age, complications sometimes require frequent doctor visits. The tests are sometimes a "doctor's refuge" from the pressures the patients exert. At least, that's how it looks to quite a few patients.

Intuitively, I thought it was indeed an existing phenomenon. In a Google search, I brought up an article from The New Yorker from 2015 about a wide-ranging phenomenon with health and economic consequences. Has the situation improved since 2015? I doubt enough that the burdens on doctors following the coronavirus crisis have increased dramatically. What are the dimensions of the phenomenon? It's hard to say, but they are probably important—a possible topic for empirical research. (I estimate that private insurance companies and state health insurance would have been happy to accept the research findings.)

Links:
An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What can we do about it?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande

Food-eating Addiction Weaning Methodology.
https://www.sf-healing.com/page/192 (Copy & Paste)
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