Section: Module 3: Lesson 2: Medicalization and Overdiagnosis | Humanism in Health and Healthcare | NextGenU.org
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Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 18 mins
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how medicalization leads to over-diagnosis and articulate why this may negatively impact patient care.
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Please read the article on medicalization and over-diagnosis. As you read, think about how the expectations of patients, combined with the profit driven nature of many clinical practices and practitioners fear of lawsuits might combine to create a situation in which patients are over-diagnosed and over-treated. How might this be bad for patients, and for health care as a whole?
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