Medical Maximizing Preferences and Beliefs About Cancer Among US Adults.

Importance: Medical overutilization contributes to significant health care expenditures and exposes patients to questionably beneficial surgery and unnecessary risk.

Objectives: To understand public attitudes toward medical utilization and the association of these attitudes with beliefs about cancer.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In this cross-sectional survey study conducted from August 26 to October 28, 2020, US-based, English-speaking adults were recruited from the general public using Prolific Academic, a research participant platform.

Second- and third-year medical students' clinical encounters in the emergency department.

Background: Experiential learning theory suggests that direct clinical experiences facilitate learning. Previous literature has focused primarily on the experiences of fourth-year medical students. As more students gain early clinical exposure, it is important to understand the types of patients seen by junior students.

Assessing Fear of Thyroid Cancer in the General U.S. Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.

This study aimed to measure fear of thyroid cancer in the general U.S. population and identify factors associated with a high level of thyroid cancer-specific fear that may contribute to overtreatment.