Overdiagnosis
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Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Overdiagnosis is the least familiar side effect of testing for early forms of disease – and, arguably, the most important. It is a problem because it turns people into patients unnecessarily and because it leads to treatments that can only cause harm.
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See also
- Disease mongering
- False positive
- Medicalization
- Interventionism (medicine)
- Patient education
- Schooliosis
- Screening (medicine)
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