“The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume that if technology can find more cancer, it will save more lives. Marketers exploit this assumption.… — H. Gilbert Welch Copy Share Image
“Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would have some evidence of thyroid cancer if examined carefully enough.” — H. Gilbert Welch Copy Share Image
“The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume… — H. Gilbert Welch Copy Share Image
“Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would… — H. Gilbert Welch Copy Share Image
“The United States is one of only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs” — H. Gilbert Welch Copy Share Image
