“Are medical labels helpful? I’d argue they’re not”

Brendan O'Connor - A podcast by RTÉ Radio 1

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, Consultant in Neurology in The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London has written a new book, ‘The Age of Diagnosis’ in which she says, in her 30 years of being a doctor, she has observed a rise in overdiagnosis, overmedicalisation and ‘diagnosis creep’ in areas like autism, ADHD and depression.