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May I have your your thoughts on the cost-benefit analysis of my having survived the last seven years?

Sure, for you personally, great benefit vs. cost. That is an post hoc analysis. I suspect you couldn't have told me that was going to happen in 1997.

Absolutely meaningless for the population at large. If we could know before-the-fact who the "ConorMacNessas" are it would be great. Would avoid having to subject a lot of people to a dubious test that yields way too many false positives.

So ex ante, if you were in charge of my health care, would you have given me the PSA at age 60? And, if not, why not? Is it that expensive that we need to relegate men who would have been diagnosed through its use to death by virtue of its non-use?

Lots of men over 50 develop prostate cancer, even without the spur of exposure to Agent Orange. What do you have to say to them?

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“I suspect you couldn’t have told me that was going to happen in 1997. “

That’s what the tests are for.

"Absolutely meaningless for the population at large. If we could know before-the-fact who the "ConorMacNessas" are it would be great. Would avoid having to subject a lot of people to a dubious test that yields way too many false positives."

A meaningless test? Do you have any concept of how painful it is to die from prostate cancer, or to have to endure surgery to remove a cancerous prostate?

A huge number of men over 50 suffer from prostate cancer - would you relegate our fathers, uncles and older brothers to that fate?

I have no idea how old you are, but if you're approaching your "Golden Years" - they may not turn out to be what you had in mind. Get a PSA, FRiend - the cost of foregoing it is higher than you think.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)