Ivan Oransky

Is the “disease model” sick – or just exhausted?

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About Ivan Oransky

A TEDMED 2012 speaker, Ivan Oransky is Vice President and Global Editorial Director of MedPage. From June 2009 until June 2013, Ivan was Executive Editor of Reuters Health.

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The scourge of preposterous "pre-conditions:" Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor of Reuters Health, says labeling too many patients with subclinical illnesses leads to overtreatment, with potentially fatal results.

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