Re: General healthchecks unlikely To Benefit Patients

Posted by SLS on October 23, 2012, at 0:00:16

In reply to Re: General healthchecks unlikely To Benefit Patients, posted by jono_in_adelaide on October 22, 2012, at 23:21:52

> This is nothing new - it has been generaly held outside of the US and Canada that annual physicals for young healthy people are at best a waste of time.
The conclusions of this article seem counterintuitive to me.
Breast cancer and cardiac irregularities are often asymptomatic. The life of a close friend of mine was saved by a regular routine of annual mammograms. Another was saved by a routine colonoscopy. Perhaps the quality of the examinations should be questioned, and not the quantity.
I am sure that the numbers selected from the database are accurate. However, the selection protocol might bias the statistics and their interpretation.
I don't know.

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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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