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- verb medicine To
diagnose something more often than it actually occurs
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Examples
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The report's royal "we" returns again and again to such questions, claiming that "we overdiagnose, overtreat and overpromise."
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The results of most of them show a tendency for mental health professionals to overdiagnose women's depression and underdiagnose the disorder in men.
Archive 2009-02-01 JLK 2009
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I also think that our schools and medical profession tend to overdiagnose certain things like ADD or Autism and it goes in cycles.
Too Old For This Shit Steven Barnes 2009
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The results of most of them show a tendency for mental health professionals to overdiagnose women's depression and underdiagnose the disorder in men.
Gender: A Question of Diagnosis? JLK 2009
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Also, it's entirely plausible to me that there are shrinks out there who overdiagnose because they think they are actually helping parents and their kids and solving problems.
Savage autism. Ann Althouse 2008
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Cascades are especially common in medicine as doctors take their cues from others, leading them to overdiagnose some faddish ailments (called bandwagon diseases) and overprescribe certain treatments (like the tonsillectomies once popular for children).
The low-fat diet cascade | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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God knows we overmedicate and overdiagnose and ‘just throw drugs at’ everything else, so why not that?
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Beware the tendency to overdiagnose oneself, since psychological and sexual issues fall along a broad spectrum, and diagnosis is much more complex than healthy-versus-sick.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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Beware the tendency to overdiagnose oneself, since psychological and sexual issues fall along a broad spectrum, and diagnosis is much more complex than healthy-versus-sick.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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Beware the tendency to overdiagnose oneself, since psychological and sexual issues fall along a broad spectrum, and diagnosis is much more complex than healthy-versus-sick.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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