Preventive screening makes more people sick

by Flevia Olive Health Adviser Preventive screening makes more people sick
Preventive screening makes more people sick - Minister Shippers.  Photo Reuters
Minister Shippers. Photo Reuters
Minister Shippers of Health wants to allow the total body scan under certain conditions. Last week it was announced that she has asked.
Advice about the Health Many doctors is critical of preventive screening. They fear about treatment and skyrocketing costs.

Body Scans costs 500 to 2000 euro are currently prohibited by law in the Netherlands. Who wants an audit, therefore deviates from abroad.

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Providers of such a total body scan play on the sense of security of people: You feel healthy, but are you sure there is not anything wrong?
Someone who vehemently speak out against such preventive examination, the American doctor H. Gilbert Welch.

He wrote with two colleagues the book "over diagnosed" (2012) on. "Before, people did not go to the doctor as long as they were healthy, they did so only when they received complaints. Doctors are not stimulated healthy people to come. Consultation on That is changed.

Early detection has become the norm.

People undergo medical examinations when they feel good. Doctors try to detect diseases earlier with the result that more people get to hear that they have a disease - even people who have no symptoms. Some will do, indeed after a period of time of disease. For others, it will never happen - with them a case of over diagnosis ".

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