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Podcast: Doctor Thyroid
Episode: 73: The Aggressive Mission to Find Cancer is Going Too Far? with Dr. Gilbert Welch from The Dartmouth Institute
Description: H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH An internationally recognized expert on the effects of medical screening and over-diagnosis Dr. Gilbert Welch's work is leading many patients and physicians think carefully about what leads to good health. For Welch, the answer is often "less testing" and "less medicine" with more emphasis on non-medical factors, such as diet, exercise, and finding purpose in life. Welch's research examines the problems created by medicine's efforts to detect disease early: physicians test too often, treat too aggressively, and tell too many people that they are sick. Most of his...