Screening for illness promises to help identify disease at a curable stage and to keep us healthy. But is it worth the cost and risks? We discuss the very real downside of health screening and preventive care with Dr. Gilbert Welch, author of Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
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