H. Gilbert Welch
Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
- ISBN 13:
- 9780807021996
- author:
- H. Gilbert Welch
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Beacon Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 248
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.9 x 22.6 cm
- Genre:
- Health, Family & Lifestyle, Medical & Healthcare Practitioners, Internal Medicine
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health By H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin The American healthcare system's zeal for excessive medical testing has led to a proliferation of unnecessary diagnoses and treatments. In this thought-provoking book, Dr. Gilbert Welch challenges conventional wisdom that more screening is the best preventative medicine. Instead, he argues that fewer, not more, diagnoses are needed. Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a healthcare system that unnecessarily labels far too many people as sick. He draws on 25 years of medical practice and research to reveal how technological advances have led to lower treatment thresholds for conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, and prostate cancer. The result is overdiagnosis, which can turn healthy individuals into patients and even harm those who are not in need of treatment. This book sheds light on the excesses of American medical practice and its impact on public health.
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