Comments on: The new way to fight health myths, with spam http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/new-way-to-fight-health-myths-with-spam.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Diorahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/new-way-to-fight-health-myths-with-spam.html#comment-82876 Diora Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/the-new-way-to-fight-health-myths-with-spam.html#comment-82876 Maybe. But it'd also be helpful if "TV doctors" only gave accurate information - I've heard them recommend non-recommended tests more than once. It'll also be helpful if some medical groups hadn't tried to "sell" some non-recommended tests to public.<br/><br/>A while ago I mentioned a flyer I got in the mail from a radiology group offering a package deal on several tests - one was a CT scan for aortic aneurism (if I am not mistaken) - accompanied by a sales pitch on tests' importance for symptomless public. Additionally, this year when I came to my ObGyn office, the nurse gave me a pitch on HPV test in addition to pap smear (not just if pap smear is abnormal, that I'd have understood; in addition to pap) with a paper to say "yes" or "no" since the insurance wouldn't cover it as it is not recommended. BTW - my pap smears have always been normal. I said "no", but I'd imagine a lot of women thought that since it was offered than it is recommended. Maybe. But it’d also be helpful if “TV doctors” only gave accurate information – I’ve heard them recommend non-recommended tests more than once. It’ll also be helpful if some medical groups hadn’t tried to “sell” some non-recommended tests to public.

A while ago I mentioned a flyer I got in the mail from a radiology group offering a package deal on several tests – one was a CT scan for aortic aneurism (if I am not mistaken) – accompanied by a sales pitch on tests’ importance for symptomless public. Additionally, this year when I came to my ObGyn office, the nurse gave me a pitch on HPV test in addition to pap smear (not just if pap smear is abnormal, that I’d have understood; in addition to pap) with a paper to say “yes” or “no” since the insurance wouldn’t cover it as it is not recommended. BTW – my pap smears have always been normal. I said “no”, but I’d imagine a lot of women thought that since it was offered than it is recommended.

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