The Claim
Public and professional resistance to reducing thyroid cancer screening in South Korea was strong, with professional societies framing screening as a 'basic human right,' indicating that medical overuse can be driven by institutional and commercial interests.
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In South Korea, many people and doctors didn’t want to stop checking for thyroid cancer so often, even when it might not be needed—some even said it was a right everyone should have, suggesting that money and institutions might be pushing unnecessary tests.
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Public and professional resistance to reducing thyroid cancer screening in South Korea was strong, with professional societies framing screening as a 'basic human right,' indicating that medical overuse can be driven by institutional and commercial interests.
What the research says
1 studyStudy: South Korea's Thyroid-Cancer "Epidemic"--Turning the Tide.
Doctors in South Korea told people to stop getting unnecessary thyroid tests, and suddenly fewer people had surgery — showing that when doctors change their minds, overtesting can drop, which supports the idea that doctors and hospitals were pushing too much screening before.
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