Medicalisation and Over-diagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine
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?
Click https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088721/pdf/ijhpm-5-619.pdf link to open resource.