An overdiagnosis epidumic hurts the patient mental health

However, what happened now is that we have a massive increase in automasm, and is not that having the effect on the skirt to make children better. We should see a lightly more happy population but all we see is mental health worse. We did something well intentioned but there is no evidence that works.

The reason that is not working is because when you get to the very slight fund of a behavior of behavior or bird who have from a cheerful brain. What does the one to the belief of a boy in them? How are you stigmatizing? How do you affect their identity training? We are thinking he would be helpful to tell children but the statistics and the result is suggested is not helped.

I am also worried about another aspect of diagnorsics, which is overdection. An example that gives you in the book relating to modern screening programs that detect the disease at the stops before and most amazing. But until when they evidence evidence that these are currently beneficial to patients.

Each cancer screening program wore to some people who have treatment when they don’t need to be treated. That will always be the case. What we are desperately unpleasant is we want to make sure we look at the number of people underlined and the number of people who need treatment. However, the most sensitive you do these tests, the most superior people you will. Read to a cochran review that is screen 2,000 women, save you a living, and you up to deal somewhere between 10 or 20 women. It’s always dropping the way more people that life you are actually saving. So, the suggestion we should do more of these tests before perfect those that we don’t make sense.

I have multiple brain scans per week and many of them show incidental results. Even though I’m a neurologist and I see the brain scans all the time I don’t know what to go half of them. We don’t know how well as you interpret this scans. We need to pay more attention to detect symptomatic disease before attempting asymptomatic disease that may never progress.

In some cancer cancer-prostate, for instance patients can opt hold waiting rather than treatment. Should the norm for the precoce detection?

If you go for the screening – and I don’t want people to be for the suggested projection – you need to understand the uncertainties and realized you don’t have a panic. Of course, the minute you hear that there are some cancer cells, the kcks panic in, and you wanted out of the maximum amount of treatment. But real, in medicine, very decisaries can be made slowly. There are programs on supervisor of vigilant.

I would like to suggest people that, before you go to the scale, you will get to be deciding the proof positively, and then you can do time to think about it then, and you can ask a earned program.

I think one of the serious solution to call these abnormal cells we find the excuse of something other than “cancer”. The moment you feel that this word, immediate reactions people are to get outside, because otherwise they think they would die from him. Waiting waiting is only something that people find hard to do.

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