Uncritical use of ineffective medical techniques

The routine hospital practice of reviving patient whose hearts stop beating costs more than $150,000 per survivor, because most victims never gain the ability to breathe on the own and die on respirators in intensive care units. In a USA hospital study, doctors and nurses were able to revive 58% of cardiac arrest patients using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but only seven patients, or 5%, got well enough to leave the hospital.

1. Individual unfitness for survival
2. Excessive prolongation of the dying process

1. Dangerous foetal genetic testing

1. Insufficient government spending on cost-effective activities
2. Excessive use of resources on expensive medical techniques

1. Ineffective self-regulation in the health care sector
2. Ignorance of modern medical techniques
3. Heart failure

1. Irreversible coma
2. Illness requiring hormone replacement therapy
3. Dubious superiority of expensive drugs

1. Using medical techniques
2. Using expensive medical treatments
3. Requiring that expertise meet needs
4. Favouring expensive drugs
5. Criticizing ineffective medical techniques

1. Expensive
2. Uncritical
3. Dubious
4. Ineffectiveness