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Feb. 11, 2011
Is Preventive Medicine Actually Overtreatment?
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| 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. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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H. Gilbert Welch
Author, "Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health" (Beacon, 2011)
Professor of Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, New Hampshire
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