The raison d’etre of MDWhistleblower is to give readers a peek ‘behind the medical curtain’. This post is true to this mission. I offer readers a lesson that I have shared with patients, friends and family over the years. I suspect that elements of my point have been covered in prior posts. As I have penned over 800 posts since 2009, I hope readers will forgive me of an example or two of repetition. There is a frequent technique that I’m about to share that misleads patients about the value of various medical tests or treatments. While these communications to the public are technically true, they are misleading. Let me explain. If you saw a product or medical test from reputable organizations that promised to cut your risk of a heart attack by 30%, would you be interested? Odds are that you would be very interested. Who wouldn’t want their risk of a heart attack to be cut by nearly a third? Medicine is riddled with similar promises of benefit for various conditions
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