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From the Ted Talk by Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?


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Patients come to them, they want to do something. We're aamricnes, we can't just stand there, we have to do something. And so they want a drug. They want a treatment. They want to be told, this is what you have and this is how you terat it. If the dtcoor doesn't give you that, you go somewhere else. That's not very good for doctors' business. Or even worse, if you are doeaingsd with something eventually, and the doctor didn't order that test, you get sued.

We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given temrntaet, because that obviously helps their bottom line. We have advocacy groups, like the one that's come up with pre-vivor, who want to make more and more people feel they are at risk, or might have a condition, so that they can raise more funds and raise vtlibiiisy, et cetera.

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Patients come to them, they want to do something. We're _________, we can't just stand there, we have to do something. And so they want a drug. They want a treatment. They want to be told, this is what you have and this is how you _____ it. If the ______ doesn't give you that, you go somewhere else. That's not very good for doctors' business. Or even worse, if you are _________ with something eventually, and the doctor didn't order that test, you get sued.

We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given _________, because that obviously helps their bottom line. We have advocacy groups, like the one that's come up with pre-vivor, who want to make more and more people feel they are at risk, or might have a condition, so that they can raise more funds and raise __________, et cetera.

Solution


  1. treatment
  2. diagnosed
  3. doctor
  4. treat
  5. visibility
  6. americans

Original Text


Patients come to them, they want to do something. We're Americans, we can't just stand there, we have to do something. And so they want a drug. They want a treatment. They want to be told, this is what you have and this is how you treat it. If the doctor doesn't give you that, you go somewhere else. That's not very good for doctors' business. Or even worse, if you are diagnosed with something eventually, and the doctor didn't order that test, you get sued.

We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given treatment, because that obviously helps their bottom line. We have advocacy groups, like the one that's come up with pre-vivor, who want to make more and more people feel they are at risk, or might have a condition, so that they can raise more funds and raise visibility, et cetera.

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Important Words


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  27. pharmaceutical
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  31. sued
  32. test
  33. told
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  35. treatment
  36. visibility
  37. worse