There is no such thing as too much health spending in Australian politics, which can’t be good for consideration of new Bond U research on over-diagnosis in healthcare.
Bond U assistant professor Ray Moynihan and colleagues argue in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine that expanded definitions of disease lead to unnecessary treatment. The creation of pre-diseases, for example pre-diabetes, classifies “healthy people who are at risk of being at-risk”. The authors suggest disease specialists doing the defining is part of the problem, as is the role of drug companies.