[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Medically unnecessary" could span a wide >range, from hypochondriacs who consume >resources to no purpose whatsoever, to >those in varying states of health who choose >treatments with a very low probability of efficacy, >partly because the decision to elect such treatments >doesn't cost them anything. > >mbs Medically unnecessary and inappropriate car usually refers to treatments prescribed by physicians, not to those sought by patients. For example, antibiotics to treat likely viruses, X-rays of bones likely unfractured or, if fractured, not requiring treatment, C-sections without real justification. Then again, I don't know where plastic surgery comes in. Ellen > >