| Descript |
xvii, 228 p. ; 24 cm |
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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 |
| Note |
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 |
| LC subject |
Diagnostic errors
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Medical misconceptions
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Medical screening
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| Mesh Subject |
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- ethics
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Early Diagnosis
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Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- utilization
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Early Detection of Cancer -- ethics
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Early Detection of Cancer -- utilization
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Health Policy
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| Add Author |
Schwartz, Lisa
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Woloshin, Steve
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| ISBN |
9780807022009 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0807022004 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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