More Tales of Medical Excess: Cancer Screening and the Dangers of Check Box Medicine
February 12, 2013
A distressing study recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine once again demonstrates the remarkable proclivity of the…
A distressing study recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine once again demonstrates the remarkable proclivity of the…
I used to get sports illustrated, and my favorite column was titled "this weeks sign that the apocalypse is upon…
We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…
A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) pose one of the most interesting and difficult of dilemmas about disease screening. AAAs are dilitations…