PSW 2314 Over-Diagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health | Gilbert Welch from t psw Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 56 min 17 sec
✓ Published: 28-Mar-2013

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Friday, March 8, 2013nnOver the past several decades, there has been a growing enthusiasm for early diagnosis - engaging many physicians in a systematic search for abnormalities in people who are well. Partly as a result, diagnoses of a great many conditions, including high blood pressure, osteoporosis, diabetes, and even cancer, have skyrocketed over the last few decades. Yet many of the individuals given these diagnoses never develop the symptoms from their conditions. They are overdiagnosed.