Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin.
By: Welch, H. Gilbert.
Contributor(s): Schwartz, Lisa | Woloshin, Steve.
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011Description: xvii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780807021996 (paper).Subject(s): Diagnostic errors | Medical misconceptions | Medical screening | Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- ethics | Early Diagnosis | Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- utilization | Early Detection of Cancer -- ethics | Early Detection of Cancer -- utilization | Health PolicyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 616.07/54| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC71.3 .W45 2011 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000001899 |
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| RC71.3 .O94 2014 Oxford handbook of clinical diagnosis / | RC71.3 .O94 2014 Oxford handbook of clinical diagnosis / | RC71.3 .T14 2017 Examination medicine : a guide to physician training / | RC71.3 .W45 2011 Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / | RC71.4 .K38 2014 History and physical examination : a common sense approach / | RC71.5 .A345 2015 Advanced assessment : interpreting findings and formulating differential diagnoses / | RC71.5 .C62 2018 Differential diagnosis and treatment in primary care / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.