overtreats
Spoils too much
Overtreats is the third-person singular of overtreat, meaning to provide excessive medical treatment—more procedures, medications, or interventions than a condition warrants.
The term appears in discussions of healthcare costs and patient safety: The American medical system overtreats the insured and undertreats the uninsured.
Overtreatment can cause harm, expense, or both.
Administering excessive treatment
- overmedicationExcessive pharmaceutical treatment
- overprescribingExcessive medication ordering
- polypharmacyUsing numerous drugs concurrently
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
dosage · side effects · drug interactions · iatrogenic · overdiagnosis · pharmaceutical · superbugs · adverse reactions
Causing ruin or decay
- pamperingLavish attentive care
- overindulgenceExcessive consumption or enjoyment
- coddlingOverindulgent, protective treatment
- dotingExcessively affectionate toward
babying · excess · splurging · lavishing · smothering · overprotecting · helicopter parenting · enabling
overmedicating
Administering excessive treatment
- overmedicationExcessive pharmaceutical treatment
- overprescribingExcessive medication ordering
- polypharmacyUsing numerous drugs concurrently
antibiotics · dosage · side effects · drug interactions · iatrogenic · overdiagnosis · pharmaceutical · superbugs · adverse reactions
spoiling
Causing ruin or decay
- pamperingLavish attentive care
- overindulgenceExcessive consumption or enjoyment
- coddlingOverindulgent, protective treatment
doting · babying · excess · splurging · lavishing · smothering · overprotecting · helicopter parenting · enabling · permissiveness
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