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H. Gilbert Welch

H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH | Physician and Senior Investigator at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and author of Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions that Drive Too Much Medical Care.

H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH | Physician and Senior Investigator at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and author of Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions that Drive Too Much Medical Care.

H. Gilbert Welch Articles

Colorful digital representation of cancer cells, highlighting the theme of the overdiagnosis crisis in a scientific context.
H. Gilbert Welch

We are overcounting cancer cases by vast amounts
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H. Gilbert Welch

Cancer screening harms more people than it saves
A gloved hand holds a test tube against a background of abstract molecular structures, highlighting the theme of the overdiagnosis crisis in health.
H. Gilbert Welch

False positives, real profits: the dark side of cancer screening

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The Persecution of Heretics
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A.I. and the Medicine of the Future
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How Illness Transforms Philosophy
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An Enemy of The Open Society
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How modern medicine became dangerous

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A new paradigm to understand pain
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We risk turning life into an illness
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Lorenzo Servitje,Clare Chandler

The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
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Camilla Nord

The mind-body problem is ruining our health
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Havi Carel

Breaking the silence on illness
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Uku Tooming

The risks of erasing our desire with Ozempic
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Trisha Greenhalgh

Medical trials are not the whole truth
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Dien Ho

New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem
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Pain destroys the mind-body problem
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Nicholas Maxwell

The Uniqueness of Humanity
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Matt Jameson Evans

DIY DNA
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Entering the Soul Niche
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A New Science of Life
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The Emperor's New Genes
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Rita Levi Montalcini: the Nobel Prize-winning scientist with a lab in her bedroom
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Parenting myths and the DNA revolution
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John Parrington

CRISPR's Brave New World
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The ethical transhumanist
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The rise of God-like beings
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Science is based in metaphor
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The gene illusion
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Rewriting the code of life
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