Insurers are concerned about the volume of unneeded treatments. This report highlights unneeded surgery. You may wonder why there would ever be unneeded surgery – and yet these examples from Australia are quite shocking. Significant and dangerous surgeries are being performed with no evidence of effectiveness. A reminder that every profession is subject to pressures: sometimes by desperate clients who want to try something, anything, to help. Perhaps at other times by the pressures of the conflicts of interest inherent in recommending a surgery. Link.