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I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.
The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.
Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct but which does not benefit the patient and may arguably do harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a medical problem is detected at a stage when medical treatment is not really required".
Overmedicalisation "occurs when ordinary human differences, behaviour and life stages are given medical labels..."
I found this book thought provoking, in particular with regard to the author's challenge to commonly held assumptions about the benefits of screening and pre-emptive testing. I also thought her warnings about the dangers of thinking of diagnosis as a technical procedure rather than a physician's attempt to explain symptoms should be heeded.
Links to a couple of reviews can be found here: https://floss.social/@rdnielsen/114478603556078827
Some will disagree in the strongest of terms with her arguments about diagnosis creep with regard to autism, ADHD, and Lyme disease. This critical review accuses O'Sullivan of a poorly informed paternalism: https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/114609317582047709
Although I am not going to discuss those specific issues, I do worry that....
#TheAgeOfDiagnosis #SuzanneOSullivan #Health #Medicine
#Overdiagnosis #Overmedicalization #Overmedicalisation #Medicalization -
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I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.
The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.
Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct but which does not benefit the patient and may arguably do harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a medical problem is detected at a stage when medical treatment is not really required".
Overmedicalisation "occurs when ordinary human differences, behaviour and life stages are given medical labels..."
I found this book thought provoking, in particular with regard to the author's challenge to commonly held assumptions about the benefits of screening and pre-emptive testing. I also thought her warnings about the dangers of thinking of diagnosis as a technical procedure rather than a physician's attempt to explain symptoms should be heeded.
Links to a couple of reviews can be found here: https://floss.social/@rdnielsen/114478603556078827
Some will disagree in the strongest of terms with her arguments about diagnosis creep with regard to autism, ADHD, and Lyme disease. This critical review accuses O'Sullivan of a poorly informed paternalism: https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/114609317582047709
Although I am not going to discuss those specific issues, I do worry that....
#TheAgeOfDiagnosis #SuzanneOSullivan #Health #Medicine
#Overdiagnosis #Overmedicalization #Overmedicalisation #Medicalization -
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I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.
The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.
Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct but which does not benefit the patient and may arguably do harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a medical problem is detected at a stage when medical treatment is not really required".
Overmedicalisation "occurs when ordinary human differences, behaviour and life stages are given medical labels..."
I found this book thought provoking, in particular with regard to the author's challenge to commonly held assumptions about the benefits of screening and pre-emptive testing. I also thought her warnings about the dangers of thinking of diagnosis as a technical procedure rather than a physician's attempt to explain symptoms should be heeded.
Links to a couple of reviews can be found here: https://floss.social/@rdnielsen/114478603556078827
Some will disagree in the strongest of terms with her arguments about diagnosis creep with regard to autism, ADHD, and Lyme disease. This critical review accuses O'Sullivan of a poorly informed paternalism: https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/114609317582047709
Although I am not going to discuss those specific issues, I do worry that....
#TheAgeOfDiagnosis #SuzanneOSullivan #Health #Medicine
#Overdiagnosis #Overmedicalization #Overmedicalisation #Medicalization -
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I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.
The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.
Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct but which does not benefit the patient and may arguably do harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a medical problem is detected at a stage when medical treatment is not really required".
Overmedicalisation "occurs when ordinary human differences, behaviour and life stages are given medical labels..."
I found this book thought provoking, in particular with regard to the author's challenge to commonly held assumptions about the benefits of screening and pre-emptive testing. I also thought her warnings about the dangers of thinking of diagnosis as a technical procedure rather than a physician's attempt to explain symptoms should be heeded.
Links to a couple of reviews can be found here: https://floss.social/@rdnielsen/114478603556078827
Some will disagree in the strongest of terms with her arguments about diagnosis creep with regard to autism, ADHD, and Lyme disease. This critical review accuses O'Sullivan of a poorly informed paternalism: https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/114609317582047709
Although I am not going to discuss those specific issues, I do worry that....
#TheAgeOfDiagnosis #SuzanneOSullivan #Health #Medicine
#Overdiagnosis #Overmedicalization #Overmedicalisation #Medicalization -
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I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.
The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.
Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct but which does not benefit the patient and may arguably do harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a medical problem is detected at a stage when medical treatment is not really required".
Overmedicalisation "occurs when ordinary human differences, behaviour and life stages are given medical labels..."
I found this book thought provoking, in particular with regard to the author's challenge to commonly held assumptions about the benefits of screening and pre-emptive testing. I also thought her warnings about the dangers of thinking of diagnosis as a technical procedure rather than a physician's attempt to explain symptoms should be heeded.
Links to a couple of reviews can be found here: https://floss.social/@rdnielsen/114478603556078827
Some will disagree in the strongest of terms with her arguments about diagnosis creep with regard to autism, ADHD, and Lyme disease. This critical review accuses O'Sullivan of a poorly informed paternalism: https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/114609317582047709
Although I am not going to discuss those specific issues, I do worry that....
#TheAgeOfDiagnosis #SuzanneOSullivan #Health #Medicine
#Overdiagnosis #Overmedicalization #Overmedicalisation #Medicalization -
We are meeting tomorrow! The book we are reading is exactly what I want to be reading.
Varga, S. (2024). Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical Analysis.
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"If a barber or a motor mechanic does shoddy work or behaves badly with his customers, he receives immediate critical feedback which forces him to reevaluate and improve either his work or his behavior if he desires to prosper in his trade. Doctors very rarely receive this kind of feedback from their patients because patients feel it may be dangerous or unwise to criticize a person in whose hands they have placed their health."
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de-paywalled february show from Death Panel
https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/how-we-talk-about-gerontocracy#DeathPanel #DeathPanelPod #inclusion #exclusion #ageism #disability #medicalization #rationality #rationalism #liberalism #neoliberalism #liberalImagination #presidency #DemocraticParty #DNC #JohnLocke #JohnRawls #EzraKlein
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de-paywalled february show from Death Panel
https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/how-we-talk-about-gerontocracy#DeathPanel #DeathPanelPod #inclusion #exclusion #ageism #disability #medicalization #rationality #rationalism #liberalism #neoliberalism #liberalImagination #presidency #DemocraticParty #DNC #JohnLocke #JohnRawls #EzraKlein
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Friedman makes an important point about the complexity of the issue here:
>>you’ve got two opposing trends: One is people with serious mental illness are undertreated, and those with mild illness may be, depending on your view, overtreated.<<
In addition, the tendency, so widespread in the USA, to reduce the political and the ethical to the therapeutic worries me.
I worry, too, that this medicalization is taking hold beyond the boundaries of the USA.
Anglophone countries will obviously be particularly prone to US influence here, but I would be interested to learn whether a similar process is taking place in other countries, especially those like Argentina, in which psychoanalysis has long been important.
#Therapy #Psychotherapy #Medicalization #USCulture #Argentina
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Treating #therapy as routine has led to the “#medicalization of everyday life” https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/02/how-we-became-addicted-therapy/677532/
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Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, & Killing Ourselves to Live Longer" was sort of a strange #read. I'm usually a big fan, but she had her contrarianism cranked up to 110% here. If read thoughtful, it's a decent critique of #medicalization, and the #corporatization of longevity & death/dying. But, she seems to selectively use research, without noting the average benefits of #PreventativeMedicine. Also uses lots of anecdotal exceptions.
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Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, & Killing Ourselves to Live Longer" was sort of a strange #read. I'm usually a big fan, but she had her contrarianism cranked up to 110% here. If read thoughtful, it's a decent critique of #medicalization, and the #corporatization of longevity & death/dying. But, she seems to selectively use research, without noting the average benefits of #PreventativeMedicine. Also uses lots of anecdotal exceptions.
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Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, & Killing Ourselves to Live Longer" was sort of a strange #read. I'm usually a big fan, but she had her contrarianism cranked up to 110% here. If read thoughtful, it's a decent critique of #medicalization, and the #corporatization of longevity & death/dying. But, she seems to selectively use research, without noting the average benefits of #PreventativeMedicine. Also uses lots of anecdotal exceptions.
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Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, & Killing Ourselves to Live Longer" was sort of a strange #read. I'm usually a big fan, but she had her contrarianism cranked up to 110% here. If read thoughtful, it's a decent critique of #medicalization, and the #corporatization of longevity & death/dying. But, she seems to selectively use research, without noting the average benefits of #PreventativeMedicine. Also uses lots of anecdotal exceptions.
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Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, & Killing Ourselves to Live Longer" was sort of a strange #read. I'm usually a big fan, but she had her contrarianism cranked up to 110% here. If read thoughtful, it's a decent critique of #medicalization, and the #corporatization of longevity & death/dying. But, she seems to selectively use research, without noting the average benefits of #PreventativeMedicine. Also uses lots of anecdotal exceptions.
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Trailer for the documentary "CURED" on vimeo:
Join GALDEF (Genital Autonomy Legal Defense and Education Fund) for a special viewing and commentary today, in just 2 hours from the time I'm tooting this:
https://ticketstripe.com/galdef-cured-screening
#Fundraiser #Medicalization #Bias #Autonomy #GayRights #QueerLiberation #BodilyAutonomy #Intersex #TransRights #Queer #LGBTQIA
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The vOICe does not serve #blind #patients, only blind users; #medicalization
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Be wary of the #medicalization of population health, for it's e-where. Here, an excellent new paper (gently) critiquing the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's Report on Legal Determinants of Health for positioning law as primarily important 2 HEALTH CARE #PHLaw
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Be wary of the #medicalization of population health, for it's e-where. Here, an excellent new paper (gently) critiquing the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's Report on Legal Determinants of Health for positioning law as primarily important 2 HEALTH CARE #PHLaw
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Be wary of the #medicalization of population health, for it's e-where. Here, an excellent new paper (gently) critiquing the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's Report on Legal Determinants of Health for positioning law as primarily important 2 HEALTH CARE #PHLaw
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Be wary of the #medicalization of population health, for it's e-where. Here, an excellent new paper (gently) critiquing the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's Report on Legal Determinants of Health for positioning law as primarily important 2 HEALTH CARE #PHLaw
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Be wary of the #medicalization of population health, for it's e-where. Here, an excellent new paper (gently) critiquing the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's Report on Legal Determinants of Health for positioning law as primarily important 2 HEALTH CARE #PHLaw
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So my concern with these infographics is not that they are wrong so much as they are misleading and contribute to the #medicalization of population health.
We will not save ourselves via health care, even if health care is independently important (which it is!).
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