The lamestream media told you:
“While once-a-year mammograms are urged for older women, women who haven’t reached their 50th birthday should feel free to make up their own minds about whether to get annual exams, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians,” reports Lisa Krieger in the San Jose Mercury News on April 3.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
“Letting women make up their own minds is so radical and dangerous the idea should be abandoned immediately,” according to Counterintutitve Man. “The College of Physicians should be ashamed of themselves for such a preposterous suggestion, clearly only meant to increase the numbers of exams they sell to line their pockets with filthy lucre from unsuspecting patients,” he said.
Correcting Counterintuitive Man, the Uninvited Ombudsman notes that physicians don’t sell exams, they just bill the government (or government-sanctioned insurance monopolies), which takes money by force from the public, to give to doctors.
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Are you aware of any studies that conclude women are more prone to medical hysteria..and will see a doctor more than1 once a month for mammograms, and actually give themselves radiation sickness because they have so many mamograms…
It sounds certainly plauseable….would any doctor dare to speak the truth???
Posted on April 28th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
As a fifty-year-old woman, I can tell you right now that if I had a choice, I would choose not to ever, ever have a mammogram again. They are painful and humiliating, and I seriously would rather not go through that. Unfortunately, once I had one done, “they” won’t leave me alone and “they” nag me every year to have another one, even though I am perfectly fine. Any woman who would choose to have one every year needs her head examined (unless she had serious cancer risks, of course).
Hey, here’s some food for thought, guys. Women get free mammograms, but when my husband found a lump and went in to have one done, they wanted him to pay for it! Talk about reverse discrimination! He refused to pay, and they went ahead and gave him one anyway, but we were both steamed about that.
Posted on April 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Mamms or not? Your choice. Does some good for the occasional gal but at what cost? In real life it’s one out of a hundred thats abnormal. Screening the healthy for occult disease is reallly really expensive. From personal experience I’ve found that catering to womens fears and fantasies pays well and the gov’t money seems limitless, but getting equal access by men for more prevelent prostate cancer screening issues just isn’t in the cards. MRI of the breast pays awfully well, about one third of what prostate MRI costs, there being so little profit available in prostate studies that almost nobody wants to offer it. Both tests are good for confirming cancer, but the prostate MRI is likely to be even better than breast MRI. The real issue is that a woman estimates her personal and social worth in how much of a fuss one will make over her and how much frivilous self indulgence is allowed. I guess that’s the real answer, socially men are considered expendable…
Posted on April 29th, 2007 at 9:50 am
red pill ” the real issue is that a women estimates her personal and social worth in how much of a fuss one will make over her and how much frivolous self indulgence is allowed.”
that about sums it up…
thanks sstratford for the info..I was not aware that women get free mamograms…
Posted on April 29th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Free mammograms (under standard, universal medicare) are available in Australia - as in many other western countries. There is no evidence that women abuse the ‘free’ issue. sstratford is quite correct in the view that it is quite painful and a little humiliating (but only a little, as is any ‘personal’ medical procedure). A woman would have to be quite concerned for her health or quite unhinged to have one annually. Red Pill is unecessarily harsh in his judgement.
Save ire for things that matter.
Posted on April 30th, 2007 at 2:54 am
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