Doctors have a hard time backing off on some forms of treatmentthat are doing more harm than good.

According to Forbes, the too-aggressive treatment of bloodpressure in diabetes patients, and ofdiabetes itself, has led to low blood pressure in the formerand low blood sugar levels in the latter.

Doctors are having a difficult time in reducing the level oftreatment in patients who experience negative side effects, evenwhen those negative side effects can outweigh the other benefits ofcontinuing the treatment causing them. A study in JAMAInternal Medicine found that doctors weren’t backing off onhypertension treatments evenwhen they caused a drop in blood pressure below recognized levels.There was also a lack of reduction in diabetes medications whenpatients’ blood sugar levels — their A1C results — fell toofar.

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