Charges against Dr. Zucker, who specialized in psychiatry and neurology, include negligence, incompetence, gross negligence, gross incompetence, fraudulent practice, unwarranted tests and treatment and failure to maintain adequate records.
Yet as a patient, he writes, he has personally benefited enormously from just such testing, with not one, not two but three separate serious illnesses diagnosed with entirely unwarranted tests, leaving him with a bad case of what he calls "hypocrite's guilt".
He had, the panel concluded, subjected 11 children to unwarranted invasive tests such as lumbar punctures and colonoscopies without necessary ethical approval.
For minocycline, given the frequency of adverse reactions in the healthy population and the lack of robust therapeutic effects, it seems unwarranted to continue testing normal doses (∼200 mg/day) and unsafe to use higher doses (∼400 mg/kg) in patient populations.
I am not suggesting that all testing is unwarranted or problematic.
Although some experts believe that such testing is unwarranted, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder are offering evidence to the contrary.
Peter J. Neufeld, co-director of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan, said that once a prosecutor had reviewed a case and determined DNA testing to be unwarranted, defendants might have a more difficult time gaining access to the technology.
The "unwarranted pressure" created by these testing practices (Choi, 2008) may have appreciable long-term effects on young adolescent L2 motivation; an issue in need of much further investigation, particularly in test-intensive educational contexts like the one examined here.
And for 30 years the fact of unwarranted geographic variation has passed this test - being published in the world's most prestigious medical journals.
Doing so could reduce the waste associated with marginally informative and otherwise excessive testing, and might also mitigate the practice of responding to small variations in test results with equally unwarranted and excessive treatment changes.
