Statistics aren't the problem, but rather interpretation of statistics and the drive to standardize measurement of EVERYTHING in society. The medical and insurance establishments violate a major rule of scientific inquiry-- confusing correlation with causation. They assume that because there is a statistical correlation being being "obese" and diabetes, for instance, that diabetes is CAUSED by obesity. They fail to think about spurious relationships, those things that contribute to both. They cannot deal with the fact that I can be "obese" and yet still have low blood sugar and blood fats and plaques.
They also interpret "preventive" medicine as getting tests. Tests do not prevent one from getting sick. The only thing a test can do is MAYBE detect an illness early enough to address it before it gets worse. Real prevention is never getting the disease to start with. A mammogram doesn't prevent a goddamn thing- it only (with a high rate of inaccuracy) tells me whether I have a suspicious mass. It then encourages other invasive procedures like needle or surgical biopsy, which the medical establishment admits can cause unnecessary bodily trauma and possibly encourage the development of disease. Not worth the risk, in my opinion.
Yeah and don't they say that the mammogram itself can cause cancer? Makes no sense to me. They took a chunk of my cervix when I was like 19 because I had abnormal cells...of course it came back fine and i've never had it since...I guess it's common to have abnormal tests come back and then they wanna you carve you up. I refuse to do that shit anymore.
I don't know if mammograms cause cancer, but I do know they don't prevent it. They are also not all that accurate.
Of course they want to carve you up-- that is what they get paid for. And to the medical establishment, women are just as disposable as all the plastic instruments they love to shove into our crevices!
They also interpret "preventive" medicine as getting tests. Tests do not prevent one from getting sick. The only thing a test can do is MAYBE detect an illness early enough to address it before it gets worse. Real prevention is never getting the disease to start with. A mammogram doesn't prevent a goddamn thing- it only (with a high rate of inaccuracy) tells me whether I have a suspicious mass. It then encourages other invasive procedures like needle or surgical biopsy, which the medical establishment admits can cause unnecessary bodily trauma and possibly encourage the development of disease. Not worth the risk, in my opinion.
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Of course they want to carve you up-- that is what they get paid for. And to the medical establishment, women are just as disposable as all the plastic instruments they love to shove into our crevices!
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