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NotPhil · 3916 days ago

nytimes.com · #medicine · #medicine.NotPhil · #

Despite great strides in prevention and treatment, cancer rates remain stubbornly high. Increasingly, we and many other experts believe that an important culprit may be our own medical practices: We are silently irradiating ourselves to death.

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mk · 3916 days ago · link ·

Push for the MRI. CT scanners are cash cows for hospitals, that's one reason they are over used.

Also, decline the dental X-ray; another revenue motivated imaging procedure. If you don't have discomfort, why would you need one?

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user-inactivated · 3915 days ago · link ·

Every time I try to decline the x-ray, the dentist tries to tell me that it's the best way to figure out if I 'need' wisdom teeth surgery.

I'm honestly half-convinced the wisdom teeth removal is a scam too.

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decoy · 3907 days ago · link ·

I'm not so sure it is. When they grow in from the back they can push your other teeth forward, crowding them out and causing all sorts of other issues.

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JamesTiberiusKirk · 3906 days ago · link ·

You're absolutely right. That said, wisdom teeth removal might be the adenoidectomy/tonsilectomy of the present - something that has a real medical indication but is perhaps performed way more than it should be.