“Diagnosis is not inert. We measure [diagnosis] in the number of lives saved. But what happens to all those other people who are subjected to medical monitoring that they didn’t necessarily need?” Suzanne O’Sullivan, neurologist and author of “The Age of Diagnosis,” asked the audience at the Wired Health conference held in London on 18 March.
“The minute you turn a healthy [person] into a patient through screening, you affect their relationship with their body. You...