Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health
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Beacon Press,
Boston, Mass. :
c2011.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
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.
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- ISBN: 9780807021996 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: xvii, 228 pages : charts ; 24 cm.print
- Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.