The perils of overdiagnosis

摘要

Overdiagnosis as a consequence of PSA screening for prostate cancer is a major hazard of modern medicine, claims Margaret McCartney. Jon Rees, GP with a special interest in men's health, and urologist Roger Kirby respond with their perspectives on this dilemma. We are going in the wrong direction. I have talked to enough people who were alive before the NHS to know that a lack of effective medical care killed people. Then, it was prohibitively expensive to take a sick child to the doctor. Parents routinely dressed and repaired cuts and injuries - even broken bones - without recourse to A&E.