title: High technology health care.
abstract: High technology medicine often harms more people than it saves. The resources that are spent in too many of our high technology procedures could be far more effectively used to save far more lives in other parts of the system. High technology health care is thus a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing if it is used correctly, but tragically it is too often a curse, stealing resources desperately needed elsewhere.
authors.affiliation: Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, University of Denver, CO 80208.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Lamm
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006291:Health Policy; D006292:Health Priorities; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D014481:United States