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Posted on 05/23/2012 5:48:20 AM PDT by shortstop
“Note that the government panels issuing these “recommendations” are not made up of physician experts who treat cancer, but statistician types who just look at aggregate data.”
A cancer surgery specialist who disagrees:
“Far too often we do a million-dollar workup for patients with early stage breast cancer, and there is pretty much zero good evidence that these workups improve survival, improve care, or otherwise do anything except cost a lot of money, delay definitive treatment, expose the patient to radiation, and provoke worry in both patient and practitioner.”
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/04/10/choosing-wisely-when-it-comes-to-medicin/
His blog is worth reading. No personal affiliation or interests other than thinking its one of the best reads around, esp. if you’re interested in “alternative” medicine & various forms of modern quackery.
Look how well that food pyramid worked out!
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I think an across-the-board examination needs to be made of Obama-era medical decisions that on their surface seemed to be designed to increase mortality.
This is not as outrageous as it sounds, because these people have outrageous, and oftentimes murderous ideas, which they have made little effort to conceal.
Many in the “pseudo-scientific radical left” are all in favor of just about anything that kills people, individually or collectively. They see people as “enemies of the environment”, and a pestilence on the land that needs to be dramatically reduced, “for the environment”.
And as pedophiles are attracted to working with children, these mentally ill individuals are attracted to systems that are supposed to benefit the health of people.
The bottom line is that right now, people who want to kill thousands or even millions of other people, are trying to figure out ways of doing it, and getting away with it.
If they can deny them the means of discovering they have a dangerous disease, it is disconnected enough for them to do so.
You might want to read further on this issue. From what I’ve seen this may be one time the government is actually correct. European governments have backed off on cancer screening for awhile due to its ineffectiveness and potential harm. One place to get more information is the Center for Medical Consumers. It’s a private organization which debunks false health information to protect the consumer:
http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/03/08/what-mds-dont-know-about-cancer-screening-tests/
Won’t those same people have to treat the cancer after it appears?
trust me this is a set up for rationing (death camps).
That’s just not true. My wife is still alive, and my father did not die from his cancer.
Well that is good to hear for sure. I apologize if my comments sounded personal. They were meant to be purely political in nature. Prayers to you and your family.
No problem. Generalizations and political statements aren’t usually accurate anyway, too many variables.
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