Enjoy Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health from Steven Woloshin MD, H. Gilbert Welch MD, Lisa M. Schwartz MD

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health Author: Steven Woloshin MD, H. Gilbert Welch MD, Lisa M. Schwartz MD Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 11, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: 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 excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, most of whom will not benefit from treatment, might be harmed by it, and would arguably be better off without screening.    Drawing on twenty-five years of medical practice and research, Dr. H. Gilbert Welch and his colleagues, Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz and Dr. Steven Woloshin, have studied the effects of screenings and presumed preventative measures for disease and “pre-disease.” Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs.