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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (7260)	6/30/2009 8:38:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Basically, yes. Those tests are becoming pretty sensitive. You either missed the sarcasm or you are choosing to ignore it. <g> What good is that? How many people without symptoms or known coronary artery disease do you suppose that catches? The blockage would have to be severe enough to register (I think my cardiologist said something in the neighborhood of 70 percent) but not yet severe enough to have produced symptoms or events. That's a small window. Screening everybody and his dog on the off chance of hitting that window doesn't make sense to me. I understand using them to test healthy people's fitness for exercise or gathering more data on symptomatic or ill people, but to "find out where one stands," I still don't get it. More likely, some fatal arrhythmias. Common parlance around such events is sloppy. "Heart attack" is used too broadly. I don't know the exact cause of death of either. The word I got on a colleague was "shoveling snow" and "heart attack" but you're right, it probably wasn't. In any case, the stress test wasn't very useful. We talk a lot about politics here, but the truth is that when I work, my one and only loyalty is to the patient in front of me. Unfortunately, it looks like politics will more and more become the elephant in the room.

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