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
Location Status Medical CollectionWB60 2011W43oOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780807022009
- 0807022004