Overdiagnosed
Subtitle: making people sick in the pursuit of health
By: H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin
Contributors: Schwartz, Lisa; Woloshin, Steve
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780807022009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genesis : people become patients with high blood pressure; title: We change the rules : how numbers get changed to give you diabetes, high cholesterol, and osteoporosis; title: We are able to see more : how scans give you gallstones, damaged knee cartilage, bulging discs, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and blood clots; title: We look harder for prostate cancer : how screening made it clear that overdiagnosis exists in cancer; title: We look harder for other cancers; title: We look harder for breast cancer; title: We stumble onto incidentalomas that might be cancer; title: We look harder for everything else : how screening gives you (and your baby) another set of problems; title: We confuse DNA with disease : how genetic testing will give you almost anything; title: Get the facts; title: Get the system; title: Get the big picture; title: Conclusion : pursuing health with less diagnosis.