Our prejudices may be leading us to the wrong diagnoses. This holiday season is a time for
us to reflect on our practices and renew our efforts to look out for the vulnerable.Physicians …

Overdiagnosis is a significant problem for healthcare, harming individuals and incurring
costs. One potential barrier to addressing overdiagnosis concerns the difficulty of pinning …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are faced each day with a myriad of diagnostic challenges,
mostly small, sometimes large, as our patients come to us with their puzzling symptoms and …

Medical diagnoses can be subject to ambiguity, flux, subjectivity, and inherent uncertainty.
This is particularly true in primary care, where many reported symptoms do not conform to a …

How can overdiagnosis be defined, explained, and estimated on an individual level? The
answers to this question are essential for persons to be able to make informed choices and …

Before my first day teaching at a Kenyan children's hospital, an American friend warned me
of the intensity with which my fellow pediatricians would question the medical students.“It's …

patients' lack of decision-making capacity will—provided a series of criteria are met—justify
briefly withholding their diagnosis. We acknowledge this action as a kind of deception with …

Overdiagnosis is an emerging problem in health policy and practice: we address its
definition and ethical implications. We argue that the definition of overdiagnosis should be …

Previous studies have documented diagnostic bias and noted that its reduction could
eliminate misdiagnosis and improve mental health service delivery. Few studies have …

Objective: The objective of this review is to identify, appraise, and synthesize available
qualitative evidence related to diagnostic overshadowing in mental health consumers who …