overdiagnosis

[Paul Crowley reposted] Sawyer 🔍, ⏸/⏹, is ap... @Coughs... — 6h Look, idk what you want me to say. Increased testing catches more cancers, but also leads to more concussions since every time a positive test comes back I whack the patient with my enormous wooden mallet. All the tech in the world won't make this problem go away. [quoted tweet] Nope nope no... @TomWright165... — 10h Replying to @MichaelAlbertMD Imagine if you had the restraint to avoid over treating but you could catch every cancer at the earliest point as it moved through the stage, what then?