Medical Over-Diagnosis

Medical companies make money by running tests, and usually the money is paid by an insurer and not directly paid by the consumer. This results in over-diagnosis, over-treatment, and unnecessary suffering by the over-diagnosed patient.

Consumers: even if the medical test is "free", do you really want it?



PSA test leading to 'overtreatment' of prostate disease

Earlier this year, the man who invented the PSA - or prostate screening antigen – test, Dr Richard Ablin said that the test’s use in the USA had become a ‘hugely expensive public health disaster’.

There is even a book. Overdiagnosed

And a NPR podcast. A person on the podcast noted that a diagnosis, even if the condition is left untreated, would likely deny the person from contracting for insurance.