Screening is one of the most counterintuitive things in medicine
It is often BAD to test for disease!
Might sound like it makes no sense, but it's true
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No one thinks the bad effect will happen to us though. It's the personal story of a missed diagnosis that we identify with.
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Maybe in part because the effects of over diagnosis are largely invisible. But the story of someone dying of a cancer that doctors missed makes it into the newspaper.
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Yep, especially if detecting a cancer early isn't raising your chances of living longer, as Gigerenzer demonstrated is the case with prostate cancer. There's a study on mammography too. One in 1000... but defensive medicine is still being practiced because of Merenstein's case.pic.twitter.com/1ApYfEtFoj
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