Q&A: New podcast offers ways to reduce medical excess that harms patients, the planet

The BMJ and Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare have jointly launched The Recovery, a new podcast highlighting initiatives that practitioners around the world are using to reduce medical excess.
Medical excess causes harm to patients, health care systems, societies and the planet, according to Minna Johansson, PhD, the director of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare and a general practitioner in Sweden, Fiona Godlee, MD, the editor in chief of The BMJ, and Ray Moynihan, PhD, an assistant professor at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University in Australia.
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