De-awareness day

Format: Cartoons

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Language/s: English

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Target Audience: Self-directed learning

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Short Description:

Earlier testing is not always better, and can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-9 Earlier is not necessarily better

Details

Finding and aggressively treating non-symptomatic disease that would never have made people sick, inventing new conditions and re-defining the thresholds for old ones: will there be anyone healthy left at all?

Cartoons are available for use, with credit to Hilda Bastian.