Ep 39 – Women’s Health: Over Diagnosis

Feb 10th, 2017

Medicine is a huge business and its basis is women!”
So I open this podcast questioning the need for medical testing and intervention.

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Medicine is a huge business and its basis is women!”
So I open this podcast questioning the need for medical testing and intervention.

I try to avoid doctors offices, but I understand that some men do not. Women, on the other hand, are told that they must go to doctors often. And so it is that Kyle Drew and I, who have absolutely no right to be talking about women’s health issues, take on this sensitive subject.

Just so you know, I believe early cancer screenings are responsible for far too much over diagnosis and over treating. A few years ago, the Chief Medical Officer of the Cancer Society, Otis Brawley, MD, stated, “We don’t want people to panic, but I’m admitting that American medicine has overpraised when it comes to screening, The advantages of screening have been exaggerated.

Listen and learn.

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