TY - JOUR T1 - Bad Medicine: Reassurance? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 239 LP - 239 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X696053 VL - 68 IS - 670 AU - Des Spence Y1 - 2018/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/670/239.abstract N2 - I get tired of fighting but sometimes fighting is your only option. Medicine isn’t static: it’s in constant flux and currently the pace of change has its foot on the floor. Crisis is forcing change whether we like it or not.The certainties of the past like enforced bed rest post-surgery, tonsillectomy, most of clinical examination, antibiotics for colds, and breast screening (and possibly all other variants of screening) will soon pass into history as being certainly pointless, if not downright dangerous medical care. But medicine is a belief system and these beliefs only end with … ER -