Hmmm so how do we find the cancer down there since PSA tests are not that reliable? Then again by that point I have already past my most productive years so I should find an ice flow and not be a burden on society.
PSA tests.....don’t have much to do with scoping the colon.
•Repeat colonoscopies within 10 years of a first test
Hmmm so how do we find the cancer down there since PSA tests are not that reliable? Then again by that point I have already past my most productive years so I should find an ice flow and not be a burden on society.
First of all, colonoscopies and PSA have nothing to do with each other. A colonoscopy is used to find problems in the colon; PSA is used as an indicator that Prostate Cancer may be present.
Having said that...as a long-time radiological technologist specializing in Nuclear Medicine, I can assure you that at least 75% of the scans that I do are done ONLY to keep the lawyers off of the doctor’s back.
In fact, a look at what took place in Texas a few years ago is all the proof you need of that. Texas was SIEVING doctors because of lawsuits, and finally passed a Tort Reform law a few years ago. The first year after it was passed, diagnostic scanning went down 56%. That is an AMAZING number.
Remember when Obama was trying to pass ObamaCare and Howard Dean got up in front of a microphone and said (screeched?), “Tort reform? We have ENOUGH problems trying to pass this bill; we’re certainly not going to try to piss off the lawyers (who are the largest contributors to the Democratic Party) in the process, are we?”