# Are we over-medicalized?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2012
- Speaker: Ivan Oransky
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_oransky_are_we_over_medicalized)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Are we over-medicalized?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ivan_oransky_are_we_over_medicalized/91550772cd92), 11 min (TED's player)