How to Balance the Risks and Benefits of Mammograms
Fact boxes can quantify benefits and harms in a clear and accessible format. When it comes to cancer screening, doctors “have too often ignored” the […]
Medical Ethics
Doctors Tested for Basic Understanding of Mammogram Math
If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients? “In these mammography wars, rational thinking can be easily lost.” Mammograms are […]
Breast Cancer Can Grow and Spread for Decades Before “Early” Detection
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for an average of 22.8 years. With mammograms, though, breast cancer […]
Learn More Than 97% of Doctors About Lead-Time Bias
After reading this, you’ll know more than an estimated 97 percent of doctors about a critical concept called lead-time bias. While running for president of […]
Overtreatment of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
Nine out of ten women don’t realize that some breast cancers would never have caused any problems or even become known in one’s lifetime. This […]
Do Mammograms Have to Be Painful?
Excessive breast compression during mammography may not improve image quality and can cause unnecessary pain. False-positive results have been described as “the most frequent harm” […]
We Use Too Many Medications: Be Very Afraid of Interactions
By HANS DUVEFELT I happened to read about the pharmacodynamics of parenteral versus oral furosemide when I came across a unique interaction between this commonest of diuretics […]
Most Women May Experience at Least One False-Positive Mammogram
Odds are most women will get at least one false-positive mammogram, but, thankfully, most women who are called back for further testing of a suspicious […]
How Is It Possible That Mammograms Don’t Actually Save Lives?
For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer patients with all of […]
Why Doctors Should Not Encourage Breast Self-Exams
Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who can you trust? […]
Why Are Mammogram Guidelines Conflicting?
When women are fully informed about the risks and benefits of mammograms, 70 percent may choose not to get screened. You may be in that 30 […]
90% of Women Appear Misinformed About Mammograms
Most women are just being told what to do, rather than being given the facts needed to make a fully informed decision. “Selling cancer screening can be […]
Should You Get an Annual Physical Exam?
What are the risks and benefits of getting a comprehensive annual physical exam and routine blood testing? The model of getting an annual physical exam […]
Should You Get an Annual Health Check-Up?
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor? Physicians and patients have come to expect the annual check-up as […]
Health Professionals Are Tomorrow’s Health Journalists. Here is a Code of Ethics to Guide Us and Trump’s White House Doctor.
By MIKE MAGEE The patient/health-professional relationship is fundamentally grounded in science and trust, and involves the exchange of compassion, understanding and partnership. The Covid-19 pandemic […]
Health Professionals Are Tomorrow’s Health Journalists. Here is a Code of Ethics to Guide Us and Trump’s White House Doctor.
By MIKE MAGEE The patient/health-professional relationship is fundamentally grounded in science and trust, and involves the exchange of compassion, understanding and partnership. The Covid-19 pandemic […]
