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The Epidemic of Fake Disease

Written By Medlife Crisis on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 | 12:24 PM

 
@medlife2 https://nebula.tv/medlifecrisis https://twitter.com/medcrisis https://www.instagram.com/medcrisis (sh*tposting only) Myocardial mug by Hana Ayoob http://www.curiousoctopus.co.uk/ Suggested reading: The Patient Paradox by Margaret McCartney - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patient-Paradox-Sexed-Medicine-Health/dp/1780660006 Overdiagnosed by H Gilbert Welch - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overdiagnosed-Making-People-Pursuit-Health/dp/0807021997/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=h+gilbert+welch&qid=1582457099&s=books&sr=1-1 References: Overdiagnosis in cancer - https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/102/9/605/894608 How 5 year survival can mislead - https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f548 Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer? - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10865276?dopt=Abstract Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it - https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h6080 Incidentalomas - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29914908 Thyroid cancer - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27627550 The NELSON lung cancer screening trial - https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1911793?articleTools=true