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    Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the culture of overmedicalisation

    Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the culture of overmedicalisation

    FromThe BMJ Podcast

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    Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the culture of overmedicalisation

    FromThe BMJ Podcast

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    Length:
    24 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 17, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    In this interview from Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 (preventingoverdiagnosis.net) Stacy Carter, associate professor at Sydney Health Ethics - and the author of a recently written BMJ essay the ethical aspects of overdiagnosis, joins us to talk about how the cultural context of medicine seeps into our decision making processes and affects how people conceptualise the risks of too much medicine.

    Read Stacy's full essay:
    http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3872
    Released:
    Aug 17, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.