The Epidemic of Fake Disease

/ … 2020 / … @medlife2‬ https://nebula.tv/medlifecrisis / medcrisis / medcrisis (sh*tposting only) Myocardial mug by Hana Ayoob http://www.curiousoctopus.co.uk/ Suggested reading: The Patient Paradox by Margaret McCartney – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patient-Para… Overdiagnosed by H Gilbert Welch – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overdiagnose… References: Overdiagnosis in cancer – https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article… How 5 year survival can mislead – https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f548 Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer? – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1… Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it – https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h… Incidentalomas – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2… Thyroid cancer – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2… The NELSON lung cancer screening trial – https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/…