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Overdiagnosed :

by Welch, H. Gilbert. frey50
Additional authors: Schwartz, Lisa. | Woloshin, Steve.
Published by : Beacon Press, (Boston, Mass. :) , 2011 Physical details: xvii, 228 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN:9780807022009 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0807022004 (hardcover : alk. paper).
Subject(s): Diagnostic errors. | Medical misconceptions. | Medical screening. | Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- ethics. | Early Diagnosis. | Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- utilization. | Early Detection of Cancer -- ethics. | Early Detection of Cancer -- utilization. | Health Policy.
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Genesis : people become patients with high blood pressure -- We change the rules : how numbers get changed to give you diabetes, high cholesterol, and osteoporosis -- We are able to see more : how scans give you gallstones, damaged knee cartilage, bulging discs, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and blood clots -- We look harder for prostate cancer : how screening made it clear that overdiagnosis exists in cancer -- We look harder for other cancers -- We look harder for breast cancer -- We stumble onto incidentalomas that might be cancer -- We look harder for everything else : how screening gives you (and your baby) another set of problems -- We confuse DNA with disease : how genetic testing will give you almost anything -- Get the facts -- Get the system -- Get the big picture -- Conclusion : pursuing health with less diagnosis.

Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs.