Readers of this blog, and those with whom I have shared my philosophy of medical practice, know that I am a conservative practitioner. I rail against overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Less medicine results in more healing and protection. In an example, I have explained previously why I advise patients not to undergo total body scan s , despite the lure that they offer a cancerophobic public. I’ve never undergone a CXR in my life. I’ve never entered medicine’s Tunnel of Adventure, also known as a CAT scan. My fear would be that the scan would show various internal imperfections of no meaning that would generate anxiety, expense and a cascade of medical tests to follow up on the ‘abnormalities’. Any real patient reading this who has been around the block once or twice, will validate my scanophobia. Not a week goes by in my practice, that I am not facing a worried patient who was found to have some trivial finding on a scan that nearly always is entirely innocent. Often,
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