But overuse of medical technology began when physicians submitted to high-tech medicine about 30 years ago, long before managed care.

I think it was easier to have cancer here, at the South Pole, than back in the world of high-tech medicine.

Western Europe and Canada have high-tech medicine, as well, but they spend about half of what we do.

It uses high-tech medicine not to save lives but to clone them.

Patients expecting high-tech medicine are often surprised to find their injuries sweetened.

A. For people who need high-tech medicine, I fully support their getting it.

He is also trying to teach the young doctors how much they can accomplish without the gadgets and machines of high-tech medicine.

The nation is in love with high-cost, high-tech medicine, but as our population ages dramatically, how will we decide who gets what health care?

Wherever they come from, though, the foreign patients are drawn here by the promise of America's high-tech medicine, experts say.

How was it done, in an era of high-tech medicine when aggressive treatment seems to be the norm?