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Colonoscopy not needed for routine colorectal cancer screening, task force says
Toronto Star ^ | 2/22/16 | Sheryl Ubelacker

Posted on 02/23/2016 2:14:57 PM PST by originalbuckeye

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To: originalbuckeye

A key feature of socialized medicine is institutionalized efforts to suppress demand. The socialists think that if they can quash demand for particular services with regulatory hurdles then it’s a service you don’t need.


141 posted on 02/23/2016 8:20:45 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Yes. It’s their way of making Socialized Medicine ‘affordable’. All workers pay an extra 15% of their wages in taxes and in return, get ‘free’ health care. Except when the Government decides you don’t get the care you need. Your life isn’t worth the cost of the care. And then you have no where to turn to get care. Remember when Obama promised more preventative medicine?? Socialized Medicine only works well for healthy people. Once you have a chronic disease, you better hope the Government decides your life is worth the cost of the care you need.


142 posted on 02/24/2016 5:45:24 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Brilliant

And one more thing......people say ‘if they won’t give me the test or care that I need, I will just pay for it myself’. Medicine doesn’t work that way. To get any lab test, you will need a requisition from a doctor. And doctors have already been told that they will be fined if they order tests ‘not warranted’ by the Government health care overseers. You cannot just go to any doctor you choose or have any care that the Government doesn’t authorize. We are in a boatload of trouble.....most Americans don’t yet realize what Socialized Medicine is really like. Big Media has been lying to the general public for years about the ‘benefits of Socialism, especially Socialized Medicine’.


143 posted on 02/24/2016 5:49:53 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Ditter

A neighbor—a WW2 war hero—in his 80s “died on the table” during a colonoscopy.


144 posted on 02/24/2016 7:38:04 AM PST by Does so (Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
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To: Does so

Was it the colonoscopy or the anesthesia?


145 posted on 02/24/2016 8:04:07 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: caddie

The Fraud in Obamacare should be exposed.


146 posted on 02/24/2016 12:13:56 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: Ditter

Unknown...


147 posted on 02/24/2016 1:22:13 PM PST by Does so (Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
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To: Does so

I know a young woman who died on the operating table during a very minor vaginal surgery from the drugs used to put her under


148 posted on 02/24/2016 2:05:50 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: DoughtyOne
I’ve had them removed twice.

Ditto me that....but last July the doc found an unusually shaped one that he couldn't snag; he didn't like the looks of it, so suggested I have it surgically removed.

Bottom line was after the surgeon yanked a foot of large intestine (which is standard procedure) he saw some diverticulosis in the neighborhood so he proceeded to yank another large section. The only good part is that everything was benign.

Five days in the hospital, and I'm a really sh*tty patient. I'm gonna think hard and fast about doing another colonoscopy.

149 posted on 02/24/2016 2:12:35 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia

Well, I’m sorry to hear that. In time the memory will fade, but at least you’ll still have a memory.

All the best to you.


150 posted on 02/24/2016 2:20:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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