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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Nine part series of The Conversation Web Site on Overdiagnosis
Part one: Preventing over-diagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy
Part two: Over-diagnosis and breast cancer screening: a case study
Part three: The perils of pre-diseases: forgetfulness, mild cognitive impairment and pre-dementia
Part four: How genetic testing is swelling the ranks of the ‘worried well’
Part five: PSA screening and prostate cancer over-diagnosis
Part six: Over-diagnosis: the view from inside primary care
Part seven: Moving the diagnostic goalposts: medicalising ADHD
Part eight: The ethics of over-diagnosis: risk and responsibility in medicine
Part nine: Ending over-diagnosis: how to help without harming
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