Well put, thank you for the response!

As a surgeon who has seen too many patients come in with advanced colorectal cancers, THANK YOU for this well written article.

PLEASE ADD YEARLY SKIN CHECKS!! The most pain-free of these, and very important for catching skin cancers early! Self-checks are a habit we’re *supposed* to keep up with, like breast self-exams, but everyone needs to go to a dermatologist for a head-to-toe check at least once a year. Woefully few know this/do this.

Exactly this.

Breast ultrasound should be thought of as a supplement, not a replacement, to screening mammography. Ultrasound is great in young patients with palpable masses or other diagnostic dilemmas, but the evidence for it to be a solo screening tool is not really there yet. For women with dense breasts, however, there is…

THANK YOU for this. Thank you. If even one person reads this and thinks “damn, I oughta schedule a [medical test]” then you might have saved a life today.

“Fecal occult blood” is just an amazing combination of words.

“So the very understandable fact that some women resort to other options when their doctors let them down”

You’re right, it IS understandable that women would turn to this in desperation, but I think the condescension is directed at the folks marketing these products, rather than at the women who use them. People manufacturing shit like this are preying on the people you mention above: the ones who’ve been to the doctor…

But are those people coming to Jezebel for answers? Probably not. This is dumb and I think people who are looking for alternative therapies should know that this is dumb. I think it is good, if they google it, that this article might come up. Because there is no benefit to shoving random crap up your hoo-ha.

Of course this piece is condensending. It deals with the subject of “womb detoxing”, specifically “detoxing pearls”, and the company that is selling them to wombmen who know no better. They are preying on wombmen who suffer from “ bacteria vaginosis, yeast infections, endometriosis, infertility, vagina pain, excess…

No, going to a doctor won’t fix everything but if the doctor can’t solve it, or your doctor is an asshole, you go to another doctor, you don’t shove a tea bag full of twigs up your vag.

Thank you! Will try!

You don’t need antibiotics, you need probiotics. A cup of yogurt spooned into your vag should work well, or just squeeze a GoGurt up in there. Good as new. Smells like strawberries.

Wow this is crazy depressing. Collectively, we should be ashamed that this exists. We’re failing our species by not properly studying endometriosis, or figuring out why women may have other vaginal/uterine pains. And, as the article states, we’re failing by not providing citizens affordable health care. No woman in…

“And when you’re done with your detox pearl, it doubles as a delicious herbal tea!”

For fuck’s sake, stop defending ignorance.

Wombmen.

Actually, the only solution to the so-called kidney shortage is to reduce demand. According to USRDS, 44% of kidney failure is due to diabetes and another 26% is because of hypertension.

According to a 2011 analysis, diabetic kidney disease in the US has been rising in direct proportion to the increase in Type 2…

Well, we could increase supply by increasing deceased donations. I would 100% support making organ donation an opt out instead of an opt in system which has been shown to increase donation.