TMI in Medicine: the Problem of Overdiagnosis

U.S. News & World Report - Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the fundamental questions patients should ask regarding overtreatment and overdiagnosis. "For years, pathologists have noticed that people who die from other things harbor small cancers. So that creates a little conundrum," says Welch. "If there are cancers in people who die from something else, what does that really mean if we find cancer?"