Recommended Medical Guidelines

The Prostate Dilemma

Posted on July 13, 2009. Filed under: Affordable Health Care, Cancer, Preventive Care, Prostate, Recommended Medical Guidelines | Tags: , , , , , , |

Even the medical community can’t seem to agree about prostate screenings. In March, after a U.S. study suggested that screening for prostate cancer does not reduce death from the disease, a bigger European study suggested that screening can lower the death rate as much as 20 percent. (Both studies were reported in the New England [...]

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How Doctors Should Think

Posted on October 11, 2008. Filed under: 8 Causes of Death, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Diseases, Recommended Medical Guidelines |

Every business forecasts its performance predicated on past experience except medicine. Yet, health care could benefit from that approach because there is statistical probability for everything, including health. Most predictable is the fact that some day we all have to be dead. To be dead, there has to be a cause of death.
To predict [...]

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