and bring it on, whatever they have. but this study says the common tests and treatments we get may not be necessary. this surprising. it is and it s not. it s a continuation of what we talked about a year ago. under the auspices of internal medicine foundation, they decided is 135 tests and procedures may not be necessary. the list is long, no antibiotic for sinusitis. no c-section before 39 weeks. it goes on. no body scan because of radiation. we don t need to get into the tests. of course what we re learning is the whole concept of choose wisely is more is not better. i know marc will talk about how the healthcare system in this country, we re spending more, et cetera, but the way to look at it is doctors are ordering tests
doctors think patients get too much care. is that true? and if so, why? dr. ernest paddy. your titles are a page and a half long. good morning to both of you. doctor, too much care in your view? basically what s happening is the doctors surveyed found 83% of them believed that their care was dependent upon what we call defensive medicine. they were ordering tests and doing tests to prevent problems like malpractice. that leads to a serious problem because it costs us billions of dollars. bill: so they are trying to protect themselves. dr. paddy, do you agree with the
we all turned out pretty okay. yes, yes. i respect the new thought form that you must do this but you look at a generation ago and they were quickly onto something else. i think that it will be okay. i think it was two or three weeks and my mom was back to work. was it two or three? my mom was maybe a month she said. i don t really remember nursing you at all. there you go. we re very bonded. she s the closest person i have to me in my life. one of the things i hear all the time as a doctor is that you doctors order too many tests. you re ordering tests for everything. and this has been part of the reason there s been a hesitation or a slow to sort of act as far as ordering more mris for breast cancer. what do you say to people who say we re a culture of overtesting as it is. i can t stress enough it saved my life.
it s not getting any easier for toyota. it s ordering tests on every suv model to make sure that they re stable. toyota is taking a step after a consumer reports warning about rollover dangers with the lexus gx 460. reaching for the stars. how many kids do you know that wanted to grow up to be astronauts. first there was gemini, then apollo and today the space shuttle. tomorrow? that s what we re talking about now and president obama is planning for the future of space exploration, but thousands of people, spaceflight is not just a dream. it s a dream job, one that they re afraid, won t be around much longer. if you go back and look at what happened after the apollo program when it was canceled, people i wasn t here then, but we hear stories of people giving their houses away to get out from under the payments and i m afraid you ll see that here again. there are three shuttle missions left and then what? we ll bring it to you live. john zarrella is right there at kennedy spac