&gt; &gt; The medical community&#x27;s current approach to testing (positive result, treat ALL THE THINGS!)<p>&gt; No, that&#x27;s what the patients want.<p>And the insurance companies, because they don&#x27;t want to be sued for a false negative with unfortunate consequences.  And there&#x27;s an additional terrible incentive in that if you treat &quot;just in case&quot; and it has a negative consequence in terms of lifestyle, it&#x27;s OK because &quot;it&#x27;s better than the alternative&quot;.<p>Consider prostate cancers that develop slowly and could probably have been left alone (referred to as &quot;watchful waiting&quot;) -- but if you operate, the patient will survive; the side effects like incontinence aren&#x27;t the doctor&#x27;s or insurance company&#x27;s problem.