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That seems unbelievable. Do the doctors _never_ find a heart attack, or get a patient treated for high blood preassure or skin cancer?
by tomjen3 10y ago
That seems unbelievable. Do the doctors _never_ find a heart attack, or get a patient treated for high blood preassure or skin cancer?
- lisper 10y agoOf course not, it's just rare to find problems without symptoms. And going for a check up is not without risks. Sometimes doctors produce false positives. Sometimes you catch a bug in the doctor's office that you would not otherwise have gotten. Going to the doctor can be stressful. All of these things are small effects, and they all generally cancel each other out so that the net effect of going for a routine physical is a no-op.