{"id":4872,"date":"2015-03-25T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2015-03-26T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:17:17","slug":"why-the-best-doctors-often-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/why-the-best-doctors-often-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Best Doctors Often Do Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/strong> <span class=\"x_publication-divider\">- <\/span>In this opinion piece, H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, argues against \"knee-jerk medicine,\" in which doctors attempt to \"fix\" patients' ailments by prescribing more medications or procedures, as opposed to taking a less invasive approach. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/experts\/2015\/03\/25\/why-the-best-doctors-often-do-nothing\/?KEYWORDS=dartmouth\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>The Wall Street Journal<\/b><\/i> &#8211; In this opinion piece, H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, argues against &#8220;knee-jerk medicine,&#8221; in which doctors attempt to &#8220;fix&#8221; patients&#8217; ailments by prescribing more medications or procedures, as opposed to taking a less invasive approach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}