US – 25th March, 2015: A survey of emergency physicians provides insight into reasons behind the estimated $210 billion spent annually on medically unnecessary tests and procedures.

"Physicians said they feel tremendous pressure not to be wrong, while acknowledging that some of the tests they order are for non-medical reasons," said lead author Hemal Kanzaria, MD, an emergency physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar with support from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

London, UK – 4th September, 2015: Many doctors working in India’s private hospitals are under pressure to carry out unnecessary tests and procedures to meet revenue targets, according to The BMJ.

In a special report published in The BMJ, Meera Kay, a journalist in Bangalore, asks what can be done about financial targets for doctors working in profit driven hospitals that lead to expensive but unnecessary tests and surgery that also come with risk of harm?

Olivia Kearney had her pelvis cut to make it larger, in a process known as a symphysiotomy. The operation was carried out at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in October 1969 after the birth of her first child who was born by Caesarean section.

US – 2nd February, 2015: According to a new study published in the journal Neurosurgery, "the vast majority" of neurosurgeons operating in the US conduct additional procedures and tests out of fear of malpractice lawsuits rather than necessarily for the benefit of the patient.

Quebec, Canada – 7th September, 2015: A Canadian boy who went to the doctor this summer ended up screaming in terror when a receptionist accidentally glued one of his eyes shut, his mother tells the CBC.