PSW 2314 Over Diagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health | Gilbert Welch
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- Friday, March 8, 2013
H. Gilbert Welch, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice
Over the past several decades, there has been a growing enthusiasm for early diagnosis - engaging many physicians in a systematic search for abnormalities in people who are well. Partly as a result, diagnoses of a great many conditions, including high blood pressure, osteoporosis, diabetes, and even cancer, have skyrocketed over the last few decades. Yet many of the individuals given these diagnoses never develop the symptoms from their conditions. They are overdiagnosed. And, while overdiagnosed patients cannot benefit from treatments for these conditions - there is nothing to treat - the treatments themselves can be harmful to them. Because of this it is critical to understand the trade-offs between diagnosis and over-treatment, and to be sure that health care systems don't narrow the definition of normal so that - ironically - people are needlessly turned into patients and subjected to treatments that do harm instead of good.
Dr. Welch always gives very cohesive, informational talks. I learned a lot.
This Doctor confirmed by intuitive feelings about this subject when I saw his lecture a few years ago in my city. I always questioned the importance and necessity of having a mammogram, as soon as my doctor said: "you are forty now, you need a mammogram". I went against that and have never gone for one, and refuse to get on the mammogram bandwagon now almost 15 years later.
Yes exactly. It's insane the conditioning that happens and we believe it like it's gospel truth.
Excellent information! I am only learning about the subject. We are all being brainwashed and led to believe that we have to have the screenings to ‘ save our lives’. So glad to be re-educated 🙏
I politely refuse mammograms at every appointment. They don't give up, it's almost to the point of harassment. This after the huge Women's Health Study showing no benefit to average risked women.
I wish they would be honest and show us the actual statistics of benefit for well tests.