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.
Aired: 06/27/15
