Over-Diagnosis: Are Too Many People Being Given Medical Labels? (Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan)

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan thinks that we are getting diagnosis wrong.


In this episode the neurologist and author of The Age of
Diagnosis explains how advances in screening have led to certain
diseases being over-detected and why she thinks giving a
condition a label can sometimes do more harm than good.


And Amol asks about some of the criticism she’s faced since her
book was published last year.


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Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before
that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The
Independent.


Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis
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