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I think this isn’t about specific screenings rather than the most basic physicals people get. Screenings for specific diseases like cancer and regular blood ch

• chx 3y ago
  So if this article is not against regular blood checkups then what...?
  • xboxnolifes 3y ago
    "“From a health perspective, the annual physical exam is basically worthless,” Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has written after reviewing the research. "Almost nothing in the complete annual physical examination is based on evidence," Michael Rothberg, who directs the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute Center for Value-Based Care Research, wrote in the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association in 2014. "Why, then, do we continue to examine healthy patients?""
    • Something1234 3y ago
      At the turn of the century in the early 1900s we were nuking babies' thyroids cause the only corpses they could find had diseased thyroids and the healthy babies had them. So obviously something must be wrong. There's always value in the counter example to see where our processes breakdown and fail. What we learn tomorrow in how abnormal our bodies are from another?
    • chx 3y ago
      So bloodwork yes but no touch...?
• crazygringo 3y ago
  But I would never get screened or do blood work if it weren't for my annual checkup. Your annual physical is where those things happen, or get scheduled. That's what baffles me about this article. My annual checkup is pretty much the only time I ever see my doctor at all.
  • lazide 3y ago
    In most cases, you’re far more likely to get a false positive than a real positive with those tests - unless you feel or notice something wrong already. That is what is being pointed out.