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    Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin.
    by Welch, H. Gilbert.
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    Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011.
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  • Diagnostic errors.
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  • Medical misconceptions.
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  • Medical screening.
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    9780807022009 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
    0807022004 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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    xvii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
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    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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    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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    Hawaii State LibraryBusiness, Science & Technology616.0754 WeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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