Overdiagnosed

Author: H. Gilbert Welch
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0807022004
Category: Medical

Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

From a nationally recognized expert, an exposA of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
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After the criteria used to define osteoporosis were altered, seven million American women were turned into patients-literally overnight. Download Overdiagnosed medical books for free.
The proliferation of fetal monitoring in the 1970s was associated with a 66 percent increase in the number of women told they needed emergency C-sections, but it did not affect how often babies needed intensive care-or the frequency of infant death. The introduction of prostate cancer screening resulted in over a million additional American men being told they have prostate cancer, and while studies disagree on the question of whether a few have been helped-there's no disagreement that Get Overdiagnosed our bestseller medical books.

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The introduction of prostate cancer screening resulted in over a million additional American men being told they have prostate cancer, and while studies disagree on the question of whether a few have been helped-there's no disagreement that

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