Posted on 10/26/2025 8:45:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Pinging all lists.................
THIS is why my hub got HIFU in Mexico @8 yrs ago...before US FDA approved it in US. No side effects. Problem solved.
A similar therapy is available now in the US using steam..............
HIFu??
PSA....
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For Later.
It’s so wonderful that they care so much about us. First they stop mammogram screening, now they wanna stop psa testing and colonoscopy…because they care about us.
Has nothing to do with them wanting the population to die off and for us to not get expensive treatments. Take the blue pill… big medical and big government care about you.
Hi intensity focused ultrasound
“Medicare and the Veterans Administration fund most of this treatment,”
The main concern in a nutshell
Ha—from the headline I thought this was about Noem’s “The Democrats did it” public service announcement in airports.
HIFU High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
As a “super user” of the healthcare system over the past ten years, I have learned that the patient has to be their own best advocate. With the advent of the internet and now AI, the patient has a world of information at their fingertips. And it can be explained in layman’s terms—-or in pure medical terms.
Tests are wonderful. They are literally finding new testing methods all the time. But the responses and the treatments are pretty much “cookie cutter.” It is up to the patient and their advocates to understand the risks and benefits from those treatments.
Millions of patients wander through the healthcare system like zombies.
Having worked with medical professionals for a decade, I can say that I’ve never heard a single case of a doctor discussing how they can make more money by doing a procedure or test. I have heard them discuss how they have to DO more to cover their asses from lawsuits. Their primary interest has ALWAYS been the benefit of the patient.
Obviously my experience is not ALL medical professionals. But I cringe when I see people write comments about how greedy these people are and that they only practice to make more money. That is simply not the experience of most surgeons and oncologists that I know and have observed.
So, take control of your own treatment. Do a modest amount of research. Be careful about who you believe and check your sources. Medical care is complicated and includes a lot of tradeoffs as multiple chronic diseases start attacking us.
Me too.
Quite edifying...
OTOH Zappa died from prostate cancer...
OTOH Zappa died from prostate cancer...
Guess that’s why it hurt when he peed.
I had the same procedure in 2016 just months are the FDA approved HIFU but a couple of years before any insurance would pay for it. Cost 25K total out of pocket.
Can’t even imagine what it costs now with insurance. /sarc
Was that a lyric from one of his his songs?
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