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Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
813 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

and consider success to be how many new sick people can we find, rather than the more important endpoint, which is what difference has that made to these people's long-term health. What we very often don't do, say in the case of cancer, we'll say, well, we screened a thousand women for cancer and we saved one life, but we potentially treated 10 people for cancer who didn't need to be treated.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

and consider success to be how many new sick people can we find, rather than the more important endpoint, which is what difference has that made to these people's long-term health. What we very often don't do, say in the case of cancer, we'll say, well, we screened a thousand women for cancer and we saved one life, but we potentially treated 10 people for cancer who didn't need to be treated.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

And what was the impact of that? What was the impact emotionally, physically, psychologically, everything? We're very good at capturing more and more disease, but we're not terribly good at measuring the implications of that down the road.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

And what was the impact of that? What was the impact emotionally, physically, psychologically, everything? We're very good at capturing more and more disease, but we're not terribly good at measuring the implications of that down the road.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

And what was the impact of that? What was the impact emotionally, physically, psychologically, everything? We're very good at capturing more and more disease, but we're not terribly good at measuring the implications of that down the road.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

I don't know specifically about amputations, but have we reduced the number of people who are ultimately developing diabetes? No, diabetes is still rising. And that's always my issue with these things is now we've got this whole new population with pre-diabetes, which isn't really a disease state, but a kind of a warning. And if identifying those people and then giving them advice really worked...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

I don't know specifically about amputations, but have we reduced the number of people who are ultimately developing diabetes? No, diabetes is still rising. And that's always my issue with these things is now we've got this whole new population with pre-diabetes, which isn't really a disease state, but a kind of a warning. And if identifying those people and then giving them advice really worked...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

I don't know specifically about amputations, but have we reduced the number of people who are ultimately developing diabetes? No, diabetes is still rising. And that's always my issue with these things is now we've got this whole new population with pre-diabetes, which isn't really a disease state, but a kind of a warning. And if identifying those people and then giving them advice really worked...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

We should ultimately have fewer people with diabetes and fewer people with serious diabetes, but we don't. So what are we doing? Why are we doing it? And what has been the impact for those people newly labeled pre-diabetic?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

We should ultimately have fewer people with diabetes and fewer people with serious diabetes, but we don't. So what are we doing? Why are we doing it? And what has been the impact for those people newly labeled pre-diabetic?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

We should ultimately have fewer people with diabetes and fewer people with serious diabetes, but we don't. So what are we doing? Why are we doing it? And what has been the impact for those people newly labeled pre-diabetic?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Autism was developed as a concept in 1943. And when it was developed, the people who were affected by autism had very severe communication problems. So severe that they would have no interest in people at all. So there were very, very disabled young people. And it began in infancy. It began at a very young age. It was obvious from an early age that

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Autism was developed as a concept in 1943. And when it was developed, the people who were affected by autism had very severe communication problems. So severe that they would have no interest in people at all. So there were very, very disabled young people. And it began in infancy. It began at a very young age. It was obvious from an early age that

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Autism was developed as a concept in 1943. And when it was developed, the people who were affected by autism had very severe communication problems. So severe that they would have no interest in people at all. So there were very, very disabled young people. And it began in infancy. It began at a very young age. It was obvious from an early age that

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

And the people who had it could not function normally in the world. Now, at some point in the 1960s, Lorna Wing, a scientist, she said, well, I think perhaps this thing called autism, we're probably missing cases of it. We can see these really severely affected children. You don't have to look very hard to see them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

And the people who had it could not function normally in the world. Now, at some point in the 1960s, Lorna Wing, a scientist, she said, well, I think perhaps this thing called autism, we're probably missing cases of it. We can see these really severely affected children. You don't have to look very hard to see them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

And the people who had it could not function normally in the world. Now, at some point in the 1960s, Lorna Wing, a scientist, she said, well, I think perhaps this thing called autism, we're probably missing cases of it. We can see these really severely affected children. You don't have to look very hard to see them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

But I think if we look in these schools, we can see there are other children who are being poorly served by society because perhaps they have a milder version of this. And I think that's really valid because when I was in school in the 1980s, there was no people with special learning needs. There must have been people who were being neglected.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

But I think if we look in these schools, we can see there are other children who are being poorly served by society because perhaps they have a milder version of this. And I think that's really valid because when I was in school in the 1980s, there was no people with special learning needs. There must have been people who were being neglected.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

But I think if we look in these schools, we can see there are other children who are being poorly served by society because perhaps they have a milder version of this. And I think that's really valid because when I was in school in the 1980s, there was no people with special learning needs. There must have been people who were being neglected.