More news Articles Is Preventive Medicine Actually Overtreatment? (NPR) 2/14/2011BodyImage Dr. H. Gilbert Welch joined host Ira Flatow on NPR’s Science Friday program. They discussed the issue of over-treatment of many diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, which is the subject of Dr. Welch’s new book, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick In Pursuit of Health. Dr. Welch is a professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and director of the Center for Medicine and the Media at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.Listen to or read a transcript the program, which aired on 02/11/11. Office of CommunicationsShare thisFacebookXEmail QuotedQuoteIt’s difficult to know if there’s a realization within the administration that reworking the American economy is a gargantuan effort.BylineMatthew Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business | AttributionThe New York TimesDate4/14/2025 QuotedQuoteThere’s no societal consensus that there’s a big problem with trade, and yet we have one person, the president, radically changing the direction of U.S. trade policy.BylineDouglas Irwin, professor of economics | AttributionThe New York TimesDate4/11/2025
QuotedQuoteIt’s difficult to know if there’s a realization within the administration that reworking the American economy is a gargantuan effort.BylineMatthew Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business | AttributionThe New York TimesDate4/14/2025
QuotedQuoteThere’s no societal consensus that there’s a big problem with trade, and yet we have one person, the president, radically changing the direction of U.S. trade policy.BylineDouglas Irwin, professor of economics | AttributionThe New York TimesDate4/11/2025
