Ongoing clinical trial testing therapeutic in humans.

  • Lanmanager@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Imagine a country where everyone over 40 gets an annual chest x-ray, and CT scans for smokers/former smokers.

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      Join us in the frozen North. I was three months out from a “scope” to look for colon cancer and my GP had a consult with me on an unrelated matter. He made a frowny face and said “you need another scope”. I told him I just had one. He insisted. So I went. Was on an operating table about four weeks later. I would have been dead without that scope. I had no problem doing that first or second scope because they were “free” (I am guessing about $1300 a year goes from my taxes to health care, so not free, just a decent price considering I have colleagues in the US where that won’t even cover two months).

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        I am guessing about $1300 a year goes from my taxes to health care

        That is far less than the average American insurance plan and those include co-pays and deductibles. I hate living in the U.S.

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          My wife and I each pay a little into our work health plans but that’s mostly to cover dental and a few other things we really don’t use.

          Here’s an example of that coverage: I pay about $20 a month into my work plan. That covers pretty much all our dental work.

          I occasionally have to pay out of pocket for some stuff (CPAP machine, dental implant) but get compensated after submitting paperwork (no deductible).

          I worked in the US for a bit in a kitchen and was always worried about getting injured. At the time I couldn’t buy muscle relaxant over the counter which I thought was nuts (I get back spasms) until I realized requiring a prescription was one more was to squeeze people for a doctor’s visit.

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      1 year ago

      You are aware, that you can get cancer caused by the radiation of these diagnostics?