Who writes the rules and who benefits?

The hidden machinery behind medical guidelines and the harm that follows when treatment becomes the problem.

This is the second in a series examining how modern medicine’s instinct to intervene can, in certain circumstances, work against the very people it intends to help. The first piece looked at overdiagnosis - the transformation of normal human variation into pathology. This one follows the thread upstream, to ask a harder question: how do the rules that drive that transformation get written, and what happens to patients when those rules produce needless treatment?

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