Ok so post debate here are my first annual ILikeThunderstorms DemDebate Awards recipients:

yes and no. Majority of cancer is found by woman herself. However, and this is an important distinction, a well designed study showed no benefit to routine self exam. Women did just as well picking up lumps from randomly feeling them in the shower, etc. as they did when doing the old fashioned monthly regular self…

Men are told from puberty that the best way to detect testicular cancer is with our hands.

Despite her reputation of having a rather cold demeanor, I bet Hilary is Hilarious is real life. I bet she can toss back a drink and offer a dry quip with the best of them.

Thanks for sharing and glad to hear you recieved a good prognosis.

I agree. A lot of it seems to stem with how well it can be advertised; it’s either super sexualized (“Save the Ta-Tas!” or “Save Second Base!” etc, which is gross and demeaning) or it’s super funny/awesome (hahaha omg, look at these huge football players wearing pink for exactly one month! How hilarious! The NFL cares…

How much do we need to be screening everyone at all times, though?

actually pretty good evidence and data on colonoscopy. Benefits and risks much better elucidated. There are fewer “flavors” of colon cancer, and pretty much all are bad and inevitably grow (unlike breast cancer where many do not). Talk to your doc about colonoscopy. the general rule is 50 for average, 40 if a first…

Actually, if I remember correctly, Guiliana had DCIS which, according to a great many physicians, isn’t even cancer. So, by having a double mastectomy and five years of Tamoxifen, Guiliana was actually wildly overtreated and has to live the rest of her life as a “breast cancer survivor.”

Exactly! The problem is people are TERRIBLE at cost-benefit analysis- we prickle at even the suggestion that we scale back on the screenings.

Great article! The effects of false positives and overscreening are poorly understood by physicians, and even more so by the public. Any decision for a test or treatment that affects very large populations needs to be taken VERY seriously. Asprin for all, mammograms, etc. have huge effects. Pretty much by definition,…

I can’t say how often I’ve wanted a “House Hunters” episode to end like that.

Doug had a show for a while “Moving Up” which was pretty interesting. Former owners of homes go BACK and see what the new owners did to the place. Some real angry people on that one. A lot of people on it were working with shoe string budgets or spouses who demanded some real hideous shit

The upside down room, though.

There’s two ways midwives are licensed - as Certified Nurse Midwives, meaning they’ve gone to nursing school and then attended an accredited Midwifery program, or as Certified Professional Midwives (the one Duggar girl recently got this certification) which basically means they’ve attended a bunch of births with…

To any lay midwives reading this:

That would be my guess as well, and these lay midwives are very dangerous. My niece went the whole lay midwife route twice. the first time she ended up with a hospital delivery and in ICU because of severe kidney infection the midwife missed. The second time, she hemorrhaged so badly after the birth, she nearly died.…

There are no national licensing standards for midwifery. Some places require a nursing degree, some require a midwifery course, and some require calling yourself a midwife and not lying about your experience. I think the thing that frightened me most in trying to quickly check Oregon’s requirements is that there is at…

My guess is the midwife is a lay midwife and not a nurse midwife. Lay midwives just don’t have the education or clinical experience to deal with pregnancy complications.