To whom do we complain? I thought about this question while watching a talk given by Dr. Deborah Rhodes at a recent TED conference. Dr. Rhodes, the Director of Mayo Clinic’s Executive Health Program, spoke about the possibilities and politics of screening for breast cancer. She discussed her work with engineers on developing a new […]
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Dollars for Donuts
December 8, 2010 
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Those crazy Brits. It seems that health authorities in the United Kingdom recommended against using the PSA (prostatic specific antigen) blood test to screen for prostate cancer. The UK National Screening Committee began looking at the results of several major studies and determined that the blood test generated more false positives—the test suggesting cancer, when […]
Continue readingHeard It Through the Grapevine
October 24, 2010 2 Comments
Occasionally a patient will come in for a visit and during discussion will ask that we run a specific blood or diagnostic test. Sometimes it’s just a matter of curiosity (“What’s my blood type?”), other times it’s because they have a friend or relative recently diagnosed with a disease and they want to be checked […]
Continue readingClearing the Throat
October 6, 2010 0 Comments
The woman sitting on the exam table before me just had her 65th birthday. She came to the office as a new patient for her “Welcome to Medicare” physical; the one time that Medicare allowed some flexibility in allowing physicians’ to do preventative tests, rather than fixing existing health problems. She was extremely pleasant and […]
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