Cognitive Bias, Misdiagnosis, Diagnostic Overshadowing, Iatrogenic Diagnosis, and Overdiagnosis are important clinical issues to be aware about in medicine. This is especially important in psychiatry, since there are few objective clinical tests for most disorders, and relies on the subjectivity of both patient report and interpretation of these symptoms by clinicians.
The term Overdiagnosis is inconsistently used in the literature, but is generally implied to mean diagnosis based on diagnostic criteria that include people with transient or mild symptoms not amenable to treatment.[4] Overdiagnosis is not unique to psychiatry among medical specialties, but it is much more susceptible due to the lack of measurable biomarkers and reliance on diagnostic checklists like the DSM.