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H. Gilbert Welch
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H. Gilbert Welch is an American academic physician and cancer researcher who examines medical screenings and the consequences of overdiagnosis in healthcare.
Biography
H. Gilbert Welch is an American academic physician and cancer researcher. He worked as an internist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, and served as a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
In September 2018, Welch stepped down from Dartmouth College following a twenty-month research misconduct investigation. The institutional inquiry concluded that he had engaged in plagiarism.
Drawing on twenty-five years of medical practice and research, Welch has investigated the outcomes of screenings and preventative measures for disease, examining how shifting diagnostic thresholds turn healthy people into patients.
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Books by H. Gilbert Welch
Overdiagnosed
Overdiagnosed explores how broadened disease definitions and increased screenings transform healthy individuals into patients. Drawing on clinical practice and research, the authors contend that more diagnosis does not necessarily result in better health outcomes.