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Helen MacDonald

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Should I eat fish?

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Can I get my violin out?

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Because Carl's just come back from Sydney at the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference.

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And I didn't go, but Carl did.

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Carl's been in the sunshine.

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He's going to start to rant.

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What did he talk about?

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I think that was really interesting.

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And the thing that I was really keen to try and get more of in this conference is trying to put a face to overdiagnosis.

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So most of the stories that you hear are from people who got a diagnosis and feel that they have their life saved.

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And I think one of the marketing problems that overdiagnosis has going out to the public is making people feel that this could happen to them or it has happened to them.

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And so we were so keen this year to try and get some patients

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to speak who actually identified with being over-diagnosed or over-treated themselves.

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So you also heard, Carl, over diagnosis, the launch of the BMJ's commercial conflicts of interest collection.

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I'm editing the collection and I'm a co-author on the paper that Fiona Godley, our editor-in-chief, delivered one of the keynotes on.

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Yeah, do you want me to talk about it or do you want to ask me questions about it, Carl?

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Shall I talk while you're finding?

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So the key point of...