The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Health
FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

Health Keeping your body well enough to support your head

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old 10-09-2020, 12:14 PM   #17
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
That's a good thing.
It depends. There are plenty of instances where medical screening has been dialed back because it was found to be detrimental. 80 year old men with newly found prostate cancer really don't need to know about it. They will die of heart disease before the prostate cancer gets them, and the urologist is going cut them and make their final year or two miserable if they go after the cancer. Better not to know.

There are many other similar examples.

For a 20 year old kid, it's probably worth learning about issues.
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
 


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:31 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.