Posted on 12/17/2013 7:09:53 AM PST by Innovative
Sometimes, surprise findings can be life-saving, for example in the case of an athlete whose brain is scanned after a concussion, and radiologists spot a tumor, Hauser said.
Other times, nothing can be done. That same brain scan might show early signs of an incurable condition, Hauser said, and "this young person now needs to live with the knowledge that she may someday develop this neurologic disease."
Follow-up testing may do harm.
Doctors, researchers and direct-to-consumer companies alike should inform potential patients about the possibility of incidental findings before they undergo a medical test. They should clearly explain what will and won't be disclosed, so patients can make an informed decision about whether and how to proceed.
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Japanese doctors do this regularly. If a patient has a test of some sort that turns up a fatal disease, they won’t tell you...........
it is the patients information
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Uh-uh. If the government controls it, it is the government’s information.
Makes sense. If they tell you about something, you might want to do something about it. Can’t have that.
Reminds me of when we first started working with Soviet Doctors back in the seventies. They were shocked to hear that our Doctors tell the patients when they have incurable conditions. They don’t.
Reminds me of when we first started working with Soviet Doctors back in the seventies. They were shocked to hear that our Doctors tell the patients when they have incurable conditions. They don’t.
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For the most part we didn’t either until the late sixties.
There was a tendency in the past to not tell the patient much (Watch an old episode of Ben Casey sometime. He didn’t tell his patients squat), and we’re returning to those days. I saw our family Doctor looking at some specific symptoms in my wife, and didn’t say what she was doing until I asked specifically what she was looking for, and even then refused to tell us what she saw.
We’re thinking we’re going to fire this Doctor soon. She’s a lousy diagnostician anyway,
This is a very old argument.
It is MALPRACTICE to withhold critical medical information!!!
In that case
It is MALPRACTICE UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITYto withhold critical medical information!!!
We are not Japan, and cancer is scarcely a taboo topic here.
Everything for the children, and in the modern Leftist state, all citizens are children—even after age 26!
I noticed the ages for certain screenings keep moving back.
Recently prostate was changed to age 50 for men , IIRC.
After a few year of Obamacare, all will be moved to age 70 for initial screenings.
I want to see everything from the raw data through the recommended treatments.
Not yet, anyway.................
I bet it was read in India, though...
Maximum age for screening will be 70 plus one day, don’t miss your appointment.
Then you could start with the meta-data; like is that really an x-ray of you and the appropriate area of interest? Is it in focus? At proper resolution? etc.
In our facility, they don’t print a copy of the xray. Everything is digital, if copies are needed they are printed to CD, the funny thing is, our computers no longer have CD drives.
This pertains to life-planning.
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