{"id":4966,"date":"2015-04-13T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:46:10","slug":"why-some-doctors-are-hesitant-to-screen-smokers-for-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/why-some-doctors-are-hesitant-to-screen-smokers-for-lung-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Doctors Are Hesitant to Screen Smokers for Lung Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>NPR<\/em><\/strong> <span class=\"x_publication-divider\">- <\/span>H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, comments on the issue of cancer screenings, which often detect early tumors that will never become malignant. He describes this phenomenon in his new book, <em>Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Care. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2015\/04\/13\/398101515\/why-some-doctors-are-hesitant-to-screen-smokers-for-lung-cancer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>NPR<\/b><\/i> &#8211; H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, comments on the issue of cancer screenings, which often detect early tumors that will never become malignant. He describes this phenomenon in his new book, <i>Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Care<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1i6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}