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Overdiagnosed Review Overdiagnosis is a something that goes on all around us yet the general population doesn’t seem to notice. Overdiagnosis means that an individual is diagnosed with conditions that will never cause symptoms or death. Overdiagnosed provides a doctor’s firsthand experience in the healthcare field and how often over-diagnosis’s occur. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch’s, along with his colleagues Dr. Lisa M. Shwartz and Dr. Steven Woloshin, methodology is a series of their first-hand experiences in a wide range of medical practices that led to people becoming diagnosed with diseases and illnesses that have yet to cause them life altering problems. Majority of the time the diagnosed “problem” never developed into a problem at all. If the treatments in order had minimal, if any, side effects and were worth it in the long run then the diagnosis would have seem to be appropriate. But, in the cases represented in this book, there was no statistical evidence to say that to be true. Every patient would undergo treatment for their diagnosed problems with the mindset that the problems would oppose no future problems. But, that isn’t the case in real life. The treatments that the doctors had ordered had multiple side effects varying from slight discomfort to, in some instances, potential death. This book does a very good job of explaining how often people are over-diagnosed with common every day diseases and illnesses. Breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, melanoma, hypertension, overweight, gastroesophageal reflux disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, degenerative joint disease, Raynaud’s disease, early cognitive impairment, obsessive compulsive disorder, diabetes, and many more other diseases are examples of overdiagnosis’s and the majority are covered in this book. Also, the use of newer technology is