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Recently, I have been often hearing these, or similar, words - “[fill in the government agency] seems to be of the mind OD rates are down, we must be doing the right thing. So, we do not need to do more.” With that logic, we should do no more in our efforts with many other medical conditions as the bad numbers are down!