very funny. I do not venture onto other threads all that much. I see insanity on the Religion forum on a daily basis, and would never dream of interacting there. The hate from supposed Christians there is breathtaking. The medical thread appears to have several of them reacting to hypochondriac relatives and as a result eschewing any medical testing whatsoever. My family RARELY if ever went to the dr. So I don’t have that history influencing my outlook.
Lots of cranks here, all about.
The conundrum is that medical testing can detect stuff early. But it costs a lot more.
Now that we’re all in this together, we have to make tradeoffs. Yeah, more frequent PAP smears or mammograms will detect cancer earlier. But is it really worth it, on the aggregate?
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death panels
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Bless ya XS - I find the religious threads too much a clown show to resist, though i know i should. I know it’s pointless, but just too damn amusing. I love that morons there openly brag about insulting/lying about other conservatives because they “are saving souls, and that’s more important than politics.”
A lot of medical testing is done to CYA and because patients demand it, not because there is a true medical need. That’s just my opinion, because I have seen a lot of excess testing done on the very poor who then pass the bill onto the taxpayers.