Bibliograph

Overdiagnosed, making people sick in the pursuit of health, H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin

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Overdiagnosed, making people sick in the pursuit of health, H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Overdiagnosed

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

610837006

Responsibility statement

H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin

Sub title

making people sick in the pursuit of health

Table Of 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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