
RE: "A very physically active person who has a known cardiovascular disease or any other cardiac condition is at a different kind of risk than a nonactive person."
Don't let that stop you. I did, by my echocardiogram, pursue martial arts aggressively training 6 days out of 7. It is good for people to be active. You know your own body better than anyone else; just take it easy, one day at a time. I still go on fast sprint runs when I cross the street. It was kind of really implied that I should never sweat again, but if I go on one mile or more walks I feel fine and it feels really good to sweat.
RE: "Colonoscopy reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer by up to 90 percent."
Speaking as somebody who has had a colonoscopy, it doesn't take away cancer, it looks up there to see if cancer is there already. It is about finding cancer as soon as you can, always, but it doesn't prevent cancer so I don't see how it could reduce the incidence by 90 percent, neither.
RE: "Many patients I talk to after the procedure often say, 'That's it?' They're in disbelief that it's over so fast."
If you are having blood in your stool, ask for a poop test right away, which is not invasive. If you do get a camera to go in your mouth and up your butt to take pictures, it is more invasive, might use anesthesia, but then you'd know if visually there are things growing that shouldn't be growing there, or if you are bleeding internally.
RE: "For parents to enter their child's world and directly interact with that child is more valuable than going through flash cards or investing in educational software or TV programs."
Investing in your kids, especially in the first five years, is never a bad thing. You can spend time with them while they are doing educational software, or flash cards. You don't have to put yourself or your kid in a box to think that these investments are a waste of time, or that play is strictly something that you have to do a certain way. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise, because your kids are your kids. Don't get sucked in into thinking psychiatry is something that is not invasive to your kid, either.
RE: "Many of the patients we see already are anxious about their risk of developing breast cancer and are worried they're not receiving the correct screenings based on their risk."
If you feel you want to be screened for a medical condition, by all means, feel comfortable enough to do so. Screenings are made to tackle and find disease as soon as possible. Don't let anybody tell you, "Oh, you don't need that." Care for your health.
RE: "Expertise is required to decipher the normal from the pathologic and avoid unecessary treatments or interventions."
But again, you know your body better than anybody else. The above quote is about cardiology supposedly. Don't even get me started on how wrong "pathology" is having to do with that, and all the excessive failures of the mental health industrial Big Pharma complex. If you think something is wrong, find out if it is. Don't let people say that it's all in your head, and don't let people say that something physical is pathological, because in the quote the context seems to be not to trace pathology of disease, but to say that you need therapy if you don't avoid "unecessary" treatments. You can take part in your own intervention. But your motives don't need explaining, and being shunted into mental health industrial Big Pharma complex will not heal your heart.
RE: "In these patients, we tend to see depression, loss of productivity, problems concentrating and sleeping, and the sense that you're constantly living in a brain fog. It's these intangible effects - not just the runny nose - that tend to bring patients to us for surgery."
If you have chronic sinusitis, don't even begin to feel and be bullied into thinking that you are a head case. Before you have surgery, also, for sinusitis, perhaps the most none invasive thing to start with is to investigate thoroughly and buy a netty pot.
RE: "Every patient who has tried one or two medications and is not seizure-free should be referred to a specialized epilepsy center for evaluation."
Because they say being diagnosed with bipolar is akin to being diagnosed with diabetes, I say it had to take many years before I got away from my abusers that I can now talk as a rape and slavery survivor. Also, it took years of medication induced sickness to be the whole creature you see before you. I can say that ten meds have only hurt me. If you think your medication has hurt you, get that third opinion and prove it! If they want to switch up your meds and you are comfortable with what you are taking, say so! Also, you may be on your third meds; could it be true that in epilepsy no meds may work? It is a possibility. Don't let them say that you have epilepsy, and therefore, like the poor autistic children, be told that psychiatric meds will make that go away: because that is not true. If you are an older person who is old enough to be in a nursing home, make sure your meds are not contraindicative to each other, and to your body's specific needs, and make sure they are not forcing you to take meds meant for psychosis to "cure" epilepsy!
The only part I thought was legitimate and not hurtful was the CAR T-cell therapy part, potentially.