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.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xvii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780807022009 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0807022004 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Diagnostic errors | Medical misconceptions | Medical screening | Diagnostic servicesDDC classification: 616.07/54Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 616.0754 W443 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003715745 |
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.
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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