Be Careful with Medical Tests

[Georgia Terrapin]

BTW, when I was a Scoutmaster our saying was, "If you're lost, hug a tree." When both people are moving no one gets found. Same with medicine -- if you keep moving the targets, and treating based on the new targets instead of the real trend, you'll never diagnose anything. Or if you change the test so both the target and the result are different, you can't tell what's changed and what stayed the same.

Hug a tree . . . .

 

[cskiles]

BTW, when I was a Scoutmaster our saying was, "If you're lost, hug a tree." When both people are moving no one gets found. Same with medicine -- if you keep moving the targets, and treating based on the new targets instead of the real trend, you'll never diagnose anything. Or if you change the test so both the target and the result are different, you can't tell what's changed and what stayed the same.

Hug a tree . . . .

When I was in high school, we had a saying "hug a root", it had a little different meaning...😁

 

[wolfmanrogers]

Also realize that previous acceptable levels may not be acceptable as your age.

 

[dpm]

5 years ago 140/90 was normal blood psi now its 120 /80 ! Really ! 25 years ago there was NO TEST for high cholesterol . Eggs were going to kill you, now that's good cholesterol . 25 Years ago doctors agreed low dose aspirin would keep blood thin and probably save you from stroke and heart attack , now there saying the aspirin really isn't necessary .

 

[dpm]

Like everything take it with a grain of salt .

 

[BHPSteel]

Like everything take it with a grain of salt .

Make it a really small grain - that stuff's poison!

 

[dpm]

I put it on bacon