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Podcast: American Thought Leaders
Episode: How Overdiagnosis Turns Healthy People Into Patients | Alan Cassels
Description: âWe get a lot of inappropriate over-prescribing for almost everything,â says drug policy researcher and journalist Alan Cassels.Cassels is the co-author of âSelling Sickness: How the Worldâs Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients.âFor Cassels, it was one disease in particularâosteoporosisâthat changed his entire view of medicine.Based on changing definitions of the disease, large swaths of Americans could suddenly be declared sick and in urgent need of drug treatment.They âmedicalized normal aging of basically the entire female population. Overnight,â he says.In our interview...