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- verb Present participle of
overdiagnose .
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Examples
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ADD is down somewhat,as they've been accused of overdiagnosing.
Too Old For This Shit Steven Barnes 2009
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PHILLIPS: There's also a concern about overdiagnosing, too.
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"When I got there I was told I was overdiagnosing brain injuries and now everybody is finding out that, yes, there are brain injuries," he recalled.
Diagnostic abuse of veterans and the dilemmas of health professional ethics 2009
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Some have recently opined that we are overdiagnosing it; medicalizing the normal vicissitudes of life.
Shattered Lives - Part One 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Some have recently opined that we are overdiagnosing it; medicalizing the normal vicissitudes of life.
Archive 2007-09-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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And the concern is, is that people -- is that doctors are overdiagnosing it.
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But that maybe doctors are overdiagnosing mild depression.
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But that maybe doctors are overdiagnosing mild depression.
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Any call for wider screening is likely to raise concern about overdiagnosing a condition that may not cause problems for decades, if ever.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Any call for wider screening is likely to raise concern about overdiagnosing a condition that may not cause problems for decades, if ever.
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