Can doctors overdiagnose? At first glance it seems like a silly question. Surely diagnosis is one of our prime functions as medics? Patients expect it and not making a diagnosis would seem to be a slippery slope to poor care and perhaps even negligence. Counterintuitively, however, there is now a movement towards preventing overdiagnosis, which can be narrowly defined as occurring when people are diagnosed with conditions that will never cause symptoms or shorten their life-spans. It also touches on broader issues such as over-medicalisation, over-treatment and disease mongering and the effect they can have on essentially healthy individuals. (Times) >
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