Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin.

  • Welch, H. Gilbert.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xvii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

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.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WB60 2011W43o
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780807022009
  • 0807022004