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Overdiagnosis: expansion of medical diagnoses into personal realms

  1. David Zigmond, retired psychiatrist and general practitioner
  1. London, UK
  1. davidzigmond{at}icloud.com

Both Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book on the recent rise in diagnoses2 and Smith’s review of the book1 contain powerful evidence for the uselessness of many recently invented diagnoses and their considerable human and economic cost. How this has happened merits some further comment and elaboration.

Before the 1960s, diagnoses dealt almost entirely with bodily diseases or functional impairments that were …

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