Analysis: Is your medical treatment unnecessary? These have been used as part of the Choose Wisely campaign to highlight the need for patients and doctors to talk frankly about how health issues should be treated. The advice includes: Tap water is just as good for cleaning cuts and grazes as saline solution Small wrist fractures in children do not normally need a plaster cast, and will heal just as quickly with a removable splint Children with bronchiolitis, or breathing problems, usually get better without treatment Electronic monitoring of a baby's heart is only needed during labour if the mother has a higher-than-normal risk of complications Chemotherapy may be used to relieve symptoms of terminal cancer but it cannot cure the disease and may well bring further distress in the final months of life Routine screening for prostate conditions using a test known as a Prostate Specific Antigen, or PSA test, does not lead to longer life and can bring unnecessary anxiety The current list of treatments will be added to every year.
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