A recently published article in the Globe & Mail entitled
"Unnecessary medical treatments can hurt budgets and patients too"
listed fifteen tests or procedures that the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) now deems unnecessary or potentially
harmful.
Among them is the routine prostate exam. The AAFP now recommends that physicians should not "routinely screen for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific
antigen test or digital rectal exam [as] evidence shows that routine
testing results in more harm than good."
This is a huge change in the course of medical practice. Does it mean that men are now supposed to wait for testing until signs of prostate trouble show up? Wouldn't it be preferable to continue testing but then to watch and wait rather than opt for aggressive intervention? Isn't stopping routine testing a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
In the best of all possible worlds, doctors would continue screening and then send patients for treatment with the Domancic Method of energy healing, which has a protocol that can lower PSA counts. If anyone would like to do double-blind testing on this, Domancic practitioners await your call.
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