It isn't, of course, the 19th century, when colorfully packaged patent medicines promised to cure everything from cancer to infertility, but more often contained harmful ingredients like lead and mercury.
For example, patients with multidose drug dispensing (MDD) have more drugs in the medication list and the drug treatment is more often potentially harmful according to general indicators of prescribing quality [ 6].
Keep busy to keep mind off problems was more often rated as harmful for psychosis than for depression.
Rally friends to cheer up was more often rated as harmful by nurses than GPs and more often for psychosis and social phobia than for depression.
Ignore until gets over it was more often rated as harmful by nurses than by GPs and less often for social phobia than depression.
Many standard psychiatric treatments (antidepressants, antipsychotics, electroconvulsive therapy, and admission to a psychiatric ward) were more often rated as harmful than helpful, and some nonstandard treatments (increased physical or social activity, relaxation and stress management, reading about people with similar problems) were rated as more helpful [ 11].
But it may be that across the timespan in evolution, thinking that luck comes in clumps turned out to be useful more often than it was harmful.
The less time doctors talk to patients, the more unneeded, costly, and often harmful are the tests and treatments they order.
Women perceived the SMS reminders to be harmful more often than did men (16% vs 9%, χ=4.01, df=1, p=0.045).
Black folks in general are underrepresented in mainstream media, and when they are present, are more often than not distorted by harmful stereotypes.
