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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (7972)	8/1/2009 8:49:30 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't know one physician whom I believe would do this. I follow a number of health blogs from physicians who have opted out of medicine as practiced by the establishment. I get most of my data from them. I'm not suggesting that there are physicians who would operate to remove a perfectly healthy kidney just to make a buck. My reference is to those who perform procedures that haven't been proven to improve outcomes. Perhaps the tests you were demanding are not considered medically useful. Like a full-body scan. I have high lp(a), fibrinogen, and homocysteine. Those are all risk factors for heart disease. My lp(a) is off the charts--ten times the top of the reference range. I changed my diet dramatically to try to reduce my risk. How could testing those markers after a year on the new regime possibly not be medically useful? My diet is now very low cal, virtually no sugar or starch, very high fat. How could testing my lipids, metabolism, and blood sugar after a year of that not be medically useful?