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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Welch, H. Gilbert.     Subjects     Diagnostic errors.     Medical misconceptions.     Medical screening.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Welch, H. Gilbert.       by title:      Overdiagnosed [elect...         MARC Display

Overdiagnosed [electronic resource] : making people sick in the pursuit of health / H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin. by Welch, H. Gilbert. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©2011. Subjects Diagnostic errors.   Medical misconceptions.   Medical screening. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=480734 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/58A/6EF/50/OverdiagnosedMakingPeopleSickinthePur9780807022016.epub Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=58A6EF50-1AEA-4652-8E1B-482559F833E8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{58A6EF50-1AEA-4652-8E1B-482559F833E8}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780807022016 (electronic bk.) 0807022012 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk.) (pbk.) 9780807022009 0807022004 9780807021996 0807021997 Description:  1 online resource (xvii, 228 pages) : illustrations Contents:  Our enthusiasm for diagnosis -- 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 -- Pursuing health with less diagnosis. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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