
How Useful is Medical Screening?
Season 1 Episode 26 | 52m 41s
Christie Aschwanden, Moderator, Jessica Herzstein, H. Gilbert Welch
Science tells us that medical screening sometimes saves lives — but can also lead to overdiagnosis, overtreatment and medical harm. Screening can produce false positives, finding disease that isn’t there; false negatives, missing signs of very real disease; or ambiguous information that confounds patient and doctor alike.
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The Aspen Institute produces the Aspen Ideas Festival in concert with its partner, The Atlantic.

How Useful is Medical Screening?
Season 1 Episode 26 | 52m 41s
Science tells us that medical screening sometimes saves lives — but can also lead to overdiagnosis, overtreatment and medical harm. Screening can produce false positives, finding disease that isn’t there; false negatives, missing signs of very real disease; or ambiguous information that confounds patient and doctor alike.
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The Aspen Institute produces the Aspen Ideas Festival in concert with its partner, The Atlantic.