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Bleeding edge.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bleeding edge.(Minister of Health)

Article Excerpt
Lately I've begun to wonder if it's worth it to go to the doctor at all. Don't get me wrong. I love my doc. He's one of the finest internists in Dallas. But over the years, I've learned that the annual round of poking and sticking he puts me through in the name of preventive medicine hardly tells me what I really want to know. Take cholesterol testing. If my numbers come back elevated, he might prescribe Lipitor. What he doesn't say is that close to half of all heart attacks occur among people with normal cholesterol. Or consider the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test we guys have to take for cancer. According to some studies, it's practically useless except for detecting an enlarged prostate. Even fancy-schmancy full-body scans have their limitations: They may show a mass on your lungs but not if or when it might kill you. Can we really have an accurate picture of our health?...

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