Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the culture of overmedicalisation - a podcast by BMJ Group

In this interview from Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 (preventingoverdiagnosis.net) Stacy Carter, associate professor at Sydney Health Ethics - and the author of a recently written BMJ essay the ethical aspects of overdiagnosis, joins us to talk about how the cultural context of medicine seeps into our decision making processes and affects how people conceptualise the risks of too much medicine.

Read Stacy's full essay:

http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3872

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