'Overdiagnosis means making people patients unnecessarily, by identifying problems that were never going to cause harm or by medicalising ordinary life experiences through expanded definitions of diseases. Overdiagnosis has two major causes: overdetection and overdefinition of disease. While the forms of overdiagnosis differ, the consequences are the same: diagnoses that ultimately cause more harm than benefit. Confusion about what constitutes overdiagnosis undermines progress to a solution.
Here we aim to draw boundaries around what overdiagnosis is and to exclude what it is not...' 'Conclusion: Overdiagnosis is one of the most harmful and costly problems in modern healthcare...' Doctors often end up converting healthy people into patients by resorting to overtesting, and this, in turn, leads to over-treatment! This is especially true of super-specialists, who can be quite myopic. Do…
