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The Age of Diagnosis

10 min read 13 min listen Narrated by Sam
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What’s it about?

A neurologist reveals how our power to detect disease is making us sick, turning normal human variation into illness and creating a new kind of suffering from diagnosis itself.

You’ll learn

  • How overdiagnosis creates unnecessary anxiety and harm
  • Why medical technology finds problems that don't need fixing
  • The danger of turning normal life into a medical condition
  • How to embrace uncertainty and avoid the diagnosis trap