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Overdiagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

Paperback • 2012 • English • 1. edition

Overdiagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

By H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steve Woloshin

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About the book

A nationally recognized expert offers a searing exposé of Big Pharma and the American healthcare system’s zeal for excessive medical testing. More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients. Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the...Show more

Public health and preventive medicine

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ISBN

9780807021996

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Overdiagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

Format

Paperback

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