Cover of Overdiagnosed

Overdiagnosed

by H. Gilbert Welch

2011 228 pages eng

After the criteria used to define osteoporosis were altered, seven million American women were turned into patients-literally overnight. The proliferation of fetal monitoring in the 1970s was associated with a 66 percent increase in the number of women told they needed emergency C-sections, but it d…

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