Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
- ISBN-10
- 0807022004
- ISBN-13
- 9780807022009
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Authors
- H. Gilbert Welch, Steve Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz
Description
Suggests that the medical profession is heavily bent on aggressive diagnosis and treatment and argues that this zealous system of overtesting and overdiagnosing needs to change in order to save time, money, and pain.
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- 2012-01-03
- 248 pages
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