Realistic Medicine

Question 1

realistic medicine

Answer 1

Build a personalised approach to care
Change our style to shared decision-making
Reduce unnecessary variation in practice and outcomes
Reduce harm and waste
Manage risk better
Become improvers and innovators

Question 2

overdiagnosis

Answer 2

Data suggests that overdiagnosis exists to some extent across a range of common conditions, including prostate and thyroid cancers, asthma, chronic kidney disease, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Overdiagnosis may be the norm rather than the exception. This matters because once people are labelled with a diagnosis, a cascade of medical, social, and economic consequences follows—some of which are permanent.