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Nobody's Normal Anymore: Should we blame overdiagnosis for rising health costs?

Date: July 22, 2009

Author: Dr. Darshak Sanghavi M.D.

QUOTE: It's tempting to complain that Americans today are wussy hypochondriacs, overmedicated and overtreated for all kinds of imagined disorders. Some of them no doubt are. But, to take my personal experience as an example, many aren't.

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• Prof. David Cutler
• Peter W. Singer Ph.D.
• Peter R. Orszag

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• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Washington Post Company

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Sharing / Resource Allocation

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Government Spending

• Health & Medicine
  • Health / Medicine (general)
  • Medical Ethics
  • Preventive Health

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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