Posted on 11/13/2018 4:35:29 PM PST by Innovative
You can expect a "drinking checkup" when you visit the doctor. All adults, including pregnant women, should be screened for unhealthy alcohol use by their primary care physicians, the United States Preventive Services Task Force advises. For those patients who drink above the recommended limits, doctors should provide brief counseling to help them reduce their drinking, according to the new task force statement published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.
As far as teens, the independent panel of medical experts came up empty. The task force said it did not find enough evidence to make a recommendation for or against alcohol screening and counseling for those under the age of 18. The panel is calling for more research.
Unhealthy alcohol use means drinking beyond the recommended limits. No more than four drinks in a single day and 14 drinks in a week is the line drawn for men age 21 to 64, according to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. For women and older men, the institute advises no more than three drinks in one day and no more than seven drinks in a week. There is no safe level of alcohol for pregnant women, according to the institute.
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The correct answer is a big FU.
They laid wellness checks on me today too.
Spill all the info or we jack your rates.
I don’t but I’ll be go to hell if I let someone check if I do.
My doc tried the standard barky care line of annual physical questions and I refused every one of them. I also told him he should know better than to ask me those things.
Tragic.
Haven’t you heard? You can smoke all the pot you want and it cures cancer and doesn’t affect your performance in anyway.
Reference back to my previous post......the commenter was Kirsten Powers.
I refuse to take a flu vaccine because they usually don’t prevent the flu and the injection has thermisol as an ingredient.
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I’m 60. Never had a flu shot, never gonna get one..
Plus, I don’t drink at all. Maybe I can sell some of you drunks a few drink credits.
Answers to those questions are right up there with “Do you have a gun at home.”. Get the same answer to both.
LIE.
A ‘six pak’ a week is all I answer to.
Not dead yet...
Did your prescription drugs and Trump memorabilia also go down with your boat?
“How much alcohol do you have in your house?”
“Do you own a gun?”
“Are you a veteran?”
This way, please...
“As far as teens, the independent panel of medical experts came up empty. The task force said it did not find enough evidence to make a recommendation for or against alcohol screening and counseling for those under the age of 18. The panel is calling for more research.”
Did the “Onion” sneak that in?
FoAD
Just went to the doctor and received a very clean bill of health
Blood pressure fine
Cholesterol fine
Sugar or whatever is fine
No enzymes indicating liver damage
and the givernment wants to get into your life even more so then can control and the costs associate with taking care of you in old age...
Just don’t ask a sex partner if they have aids, or ask a gay man if he has random sex in public parks and lets strange men urinate on him, that’s all judgey...
Socialized medicine always was about a nanny state and control. Hitler would approve, he was anti-smoking.
See my #9.
It will start off at 15 per week, then drop to 2 per day, then 10 per week, then one per day, etc.
They did it with tobacco and BAC, now they are coming for you IN YOUR HOME and you don’t see it!
Freedom includes being free to make unpopular decisions. The gov’t is NOT our parent!
Well, I guess I’ll have to lie to him about that
just like I lie to him about everything else.
Or lie to your doc. I do all the time
In my case, it is true.
I could never stand alcohol.
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