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Preventing Overdiagnosis 2018 - part 2: What opened your eyes to overdiagnosis?
FromThe BMJ Podcast
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34 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
The concept of overdiagnosis is pretty hard to get - especially if you’ve been educated in a paradigm where medicine has the answers, and it’s only every a positive intervention in someone’s life - the journey to understanding the flip side - that sometimes medicine can harm often takes what Stacey Carter director of Research for Social Change at Wollongong university described in an preventing overdiagnosis podcast last year as a “moral shock” - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/preventing-overdiagnosis-2017-stacy-carter-on-the-culture-of-overmedicalisation
This year, we asked some of the leaders in the field to describe what it was that opened their eyes to overdiagnosis and overtreatment - and recorded the session for you.
You’ll hear from Fiona Godlee, editor in Chief of The BMJ, Steve Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, directors of the Center for Medicine and Media at The Dartmouth Institute, John Brodersen - professor of general practice at the University of Copenhagen, and Barry Kramer - director of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the U.S. National cancer institute.
The
This year, we asked some of the leaders in the field to describe what it was that opened their eyes to overdiagnosis and overtreatment - and recorded the session for you.
You’ll hear from Fiona Godlee, editor in Chief of The BMJ, Steve Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, directors of the Center for Medicine and Media at The Dartmouth Institute, John Brodersen - professor of general practice at the University of Copenhagen, and Barry Kramer - director of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the U.S. National cancer institute.
The
Released:
Aug 31, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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