I'm claiming that your statement "'early detection saves lives' is simply a recruitment scam that increases risk exponentially over one's lifetime" is terribly short-sighted, misguided, inadequate, misleading and overly all-inclusive,
I was referring to the mammograms Frank. That is the industry's means of prevention - a regimen of blasting ones self with radiation every other year. So how is it not a recruitment tool? Its a viscous cycle of madness.
I haven't had an Xray since I was a kid. None for the fam either and I will continue to avoid them. No annuals. I don't need a doc to tell me to quit drinking coke to lower my triglycerides.
I'm amazed by the number of self-professed Libertarians who believe in personal freedom and choice, but want to impose their beliefs on others who are perfectly capable of determining their own choice of treatment.
'Imposing their beliefs'?? I'm not even sure what that means outside of politically correct logical fallacies. How does one 'impose their belief on others? Is that the same as having an opinion?
The last I heard, that decision was made by the patient in consult with her physician.
C'mon Frank - you know how the routine goes. For pete's sake our family doc dumped us because we refused to give our kids the MMR vaccine. Start straying from accepted procedure and things get a lot more difficult. I'm good friends with docs in the big managed care facilities. It's a bottom line business orientation. An assembly line of 'care' - what a laugh. That's what they tell me. (now before my statement is taken out of context - of course this doesn't apply to every facility/doc/system)
It can be...... so can smoking marijuana..... or sniffing glue.
Does anyone claim smoking dope or sniffing glue 'cures' cancer?
"Ignorance" is the problem.
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Agreed - but not to the extent that those already afflicted should be overlooked. We should do both. After all, we don't tell children that they should let their teeth rot out while we try to find the cause of cavities.
BUT THAT WASN'T MY POINT!! :wall head bang: My point was less people doing routine mammograms at an earlier age is a good thing in the opinion of many medical professionals - not just me.
