H. Gilbert Welch Quotes & Sayings

Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would have some evidence of thyroid cancer if examined carefully enough. — H. Gilbert Welch

The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume that if technology can find more cancer, it will save more lives. Marketers exploit this assumption. Don't fall for it. — H. Gilbert Welch

It's important to acknowledge the role of chance in health. — H. Gilbert Welch

any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people - doing all the right things - still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something - or someone - to blame. — H. Gilbert Welch