Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Is Preventive Medicine Actually Overtreatment?

In Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, Dr. H. Gilbert Welch argues that modern medicine is looking too closely for disease, and that unnecessary screenings, MRIs and CT scans turn healthy people into diseased patients, by revealing often harmless abnormalities.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133686016/Is-Preventive-Medicine-Actually-Overtreatment?ft=1&f=1007

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