When health services harm more than help

Overdiagnosis causes harm

“Harm as a consequence of necessary treatment can be accepted, but exposing healthy people to harm from treatment that they should not have had in the first place is unacceptable.”

Dr. Charles Wright, former surgeon and former chair of the Ontario Health Technology Advisory

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