Sayer Ji: Willfully misunderstanding overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis since…forever

If there’s one lesson that I like to emphasize while laying down my near-daily dose of Insolence, both Respectful and not-so-Respectful, it’s that practicing medicine and surgery is complicated. Part of the reason that it’s complicated is that for many diseases our understanding is incomplete, meaning that physicians have to apply existing science to their…
Source: Respectful Insolence - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking lobectomy misdiagnosis overdiagnosis Sayer Ji screening thyroid cancer thyroidectomy Yuri E. Nikiforov Source Type: blogs