Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health
2011
Book
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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780807022009
- 9780807021996
- 0807022004
- 0807021997
Description: xvii., 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: 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.
LCCN: 2010037078
Control Number: 786136
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011.Subjects:
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