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Diagnostic errors.
Medical misconceptions.
Medical screening.
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Welch, H. Gilbert.
Diagnostic errors.
Medical misconceptions.
Medical screening.
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Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin.
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Welch, H. Gilbert.
Beacon Press, c2011.
Call #:
616.0754 W439o
Subjects
Diagnostic errors.
Medical
misconceptions.
Medical
screening
.
ISBN:
9780807022009 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0807022004 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Alternate title:
Over-diagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health
Description:
xvii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
Other authors:
Schwartz, Lisa.
Woloshin, Steve.
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