I'm "liking" this post because you provide important information, not because i like the idea of screening, in general. And i like YOU!
I am one of those people who are now firmly in the camp of 'they only do this to make money on follow up tests, treatments/therapies and more visits.' "They" being the pharma conglomerates and their paid minions (the healthcare pros who are paid to make quotas of submissives).
I will probably be killed by all the silent killers out there IRL because my trust is gone.
So, in a parting shot of gallows humor and dbl entendre,
"I don't like your quizzies and i don't want your testies."
I've gone off the whole relentless testing thing, however, as my doctor offered the DIY kit I thought I'd do it - soooooo much better doing it oneself. Obviously, you know how to minimise discomfort better than someone else poking around. Not that I had really bad experiences with doctors but, especially having gone right off the medical system since covid, I was much happier doing it myself. I simply wouldn't have done the test otherwise.
The best use of asymptomatic screening is in targeted persons at high risk of early death from cancers that quickly become untreatable because of early micro metastases.
I saw this in PSA screening for patients with strongly + family history and with other risk factors.
Despite the skepticism amongst the health freedom holistic advocates (me too) who read this blog, early prostate removal in this group is still the best solution for long term cancer free survival in these patients.
Can't comment on cervical cancer complicated with high risk HPV, but we all know gardasil in school age children is malpractice. I do agree "routine" in office Pap smears are unnecessary if this method is validated.
Routine unfocused "screening" PSAs and DREs, like mammograms, are unnecessary and can lead to harmful outcomes.
Since '21. we now have a new large population of persons of all ages more susceptible to sudden emergence of widespread metastatic cancer or unexplainable aggressive progression of controlled cancers in patients with good care and surveillance.
Hopefully the role of health screening will now get much needed scrutiny under RFK.
When I was first married (40 years) and saw all the angst my wife went through on scheduled exams, I wondered back then why we did not have a simple home kit.
I look at this akin to taking you car to the stealership for an oil change - they want to upsell you on stuff you don't need.
Not interested in the nay-sayers who will loudly proclaim: But the doctor might see something that needs dealing with!
Yeah, and I might die tomorrow. Not worried.
I challenged my doctor on this years ago and he admitted he had done his understudy stuff with an old country doctor who used 3x5 cards and treated folk with little or nothing. He figured the outcome of those patients was pretty much the same as the big city where they had all the latest and greatest.
They want us hooked on Big Pharma until our insurance runs out.
Thx Dr FT.
I'm "liking" this post because you provide important information, not because i like the idea of screening, in general. And i like YOU!
I am one of those people who are now firmly in the camp of 'they only do this to make money on follow up tests, treatments/therapies and more visits.' "They" being the pharma conglomerates and their paid minions (the healthcare pros who are paid to make quotas of submissives).
I will probably be killed by all the silent killers out there IRL because my trust is gone.
So, in a parting shot of gallows humor and dbl entendre,
"I don't like your quizzies and i don't want your testies."
The covid swab was also configured like a cytology swab
I've gone off the whole relentless testing thing, however, as my doctor offered the DIY kit I thought I'd do it - soooooo much better doing it oneself. Obviously, you know how to minimise discomfort better than someone else poking around. Not that I had really bad experiences with doctors but, especially having gone right off the medical system since covid, I was much happier doing it myself. I simply wouldn't have done the test otherwise.
Disclaimer alert: Retired GU doc here.
The best use of asymptomatic screening is in targeted persons at high risk of early death from cancers that quickly become untreatable because of early micro metastases.
I saw this in PSA screening for patients with strongly + family history and with other risk factors.
Despite the skepticism amongst the health freedom holistic advocates (me too) who read this blog, early prostate removal in this group is still the best solution for long term cancer free survival in these patients.
Can't comment on cervical cancer complicated with high risk HPV, but we all know gardasil in school age children is malpractice. I do agree "routine" in office Pap smears are unnecessary if this method is validated.
Routine unfocused "screening" PSAs and DREs, like mammograms, are unnecessary and can lead to harmful outcomes.
Since '21. we now have a new large population of persons of all ages more susceptible to sudden emergence of widespread metastatic cancer or unexplainable aggressive progression of controlled cancers in patients with good care and surveillance.
Hopefully the role of health screening will now get much needed scrutiny under RFK.
When I was first married (40 years) and saw all the angst my wife went through on scheduled exams, I wondered back then why we did not have a simple home kit.
I look at this akin to taking you car to the stealership for an oil change - they want to upsell you on stuff you don't need.
Not interested in the nay-sayers who will loudly proclaim: But the doctor might see something that needs dealing with!
Yeah, and I might die tomorrow. Not worried.
I challenged my doctor on this years ago and he admitted he had done his understudy stuff with an old country doctor who used 3x5 cards and treated folk with little or nothing. He figured the outcome of those patients was pretty much the same as the big city where they had all the latest and greatest.
They want us hooked on Big Pharma until our insurance runs out.
Caveat emptor.