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Are we over-medicalized?

724,492 views | Ivan Oransky • TEDMED 2012

Reuters health editor Ivan Oransky warns that we're suffering from an epidemic of preposterous preconditions -- pre-diabetes, pre-cancer, and many more. In this engaging talk from TEDMED he shows how health care can find a solution... by taking an important lesson from baseball.

Reuters health editor Ivan Oransky warns that we're suffering from an epidemic of preposterous preconditions -- pre-diabetes, pre-cancer, and many more. In this engaging talk from TEDMED he shows how health care can find a solution... by taking an important lesson from baseball.

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Ivan Oransky is the executive editor of Reuters Health, and has done pioneering work in covering scientific retractions.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.