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"Consider the use of ct scans for patients with suspected appendicitis. ct scans of the abdomen are routinely used for patients who arrive at the hospital with the usual symptoms of appendicitis: abdominal tenderness, fever, and vomiting. The scan, doctors presume, helps to confirm or rule out the diagnosis of appendicitis." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Where are the data showing that the tremendous increase in the number of MRIs and ct scans being done improves clinical outcomes? There aren't any to speak of. Though we don't know the health consequence of these additional scanners, we do know their economic consequence. We can also be quite confident that the key consideration in the decision to put the vast majority of these new scanners into service was the bottom line. Consider the use of ct scans for patients with suspected appendicitis." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Ultrasounds, which are safe and cheap, measure only at the heel bones. ct scans use too much radiation for screening but are good for determining the consequences of osteoporosis, like compression factors. Ultrasound and ct scans aren't well correlated with your risk of fracture, while DEXA results are. We suggest one for all women and many men if they're losing height. YOU Tip: Learn Your Treatment Options." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"CT scans?can harm. Unnecessary procedures also waste billions of dollars every year. One study found that almost 40 percent of tests ordered by hospital physicians were not needed. More important, doctors can become so distracted with finding disease that they no longer have enough time for those who truly are sick. In 1924, before the discovery of antibiotics and most of our modern-day medicines, the French writer Jules Romains wrote a three-act play titled Knock that was a telling portrait of America's future." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Neurological testing Depending on how your first visit goes, the doctor may end the appointment by asking you to undergo several tests, some of which are ct scans, blood tests, and neuropsychological assessments. These imaging and blood tests are intended to identify what biological processes may be affecting your memory and other thinking abilities. The CT scan can detect tumors, blood clots, or strokes, while blood tests are designed to detect metabolic disturbances or endocrine deficiencies. Expensive neuroimaging is the latest craze in the Alzheimer's field." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Too many raise the risk of endothelial or DNA damage, chronic inflammation, and cancer, whether it's mammograms, dental X-rays, ct scans, or cardiology angiograms. Multiple angiograms on a patient may promote disease progression. No research shows this, but we tread very conservatively on this issue. Radiation abounds in our present-day environment. Radiation damage accumulates and doesn't disappear from your body. If you have been exposed to excessive radiation in your neck and heart area, be very prudent about reducing your overall CVD risk factors." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"CT scans of over 20,000 cancer patients, that each of them had a lesion in a certain part of the brain that looked like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water after a stone has been dropped into it. This distortion in the brain is known as "HAMER herd." Dr. Hamer, now living in Spain, found that these lesions resulted from a serious, acute-dramatic and isolating conflict-shock-experience in the patient. Whenever the conflict was resolved, the CT image changed; an edema developed, and finally scar tissue formed." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"If the physical causes of our illness are not immediately obvious to the unaided senses, then people expect their doctors to use X rays, ultrasound, ct scans, laboratory analysis of blood or tissue, or surgery to look more deeply for the cause of what ails. Once the doctor can "see" what is wrong, the hope is that he or she will be able to tell the patient how to fix him- or herself: what drug to take, is what kind of surgery to have, what change in diet or lifestyle to make." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"While we are swallowing too many pills, we are also undergoing unneeded surgeries, X-rays, and ct scans. The companies striving to sell us as many pills, medical devices, and hospital stays as possible have goals that conflict with a basic tenet of medical intervention: do not overtreat. Instead, the medical marketers of the twenty-first century work by the advice given to displaymen employed by the nation's department stores in the early 1900s as they learned to seduce the masses into buying more shirts, dresses, and toys." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"X-ray radiation from medical imaging and ct scans are also believed to increase the risk for cancer. A report issued by the Food & Drug Administration now suggests the risk for cancer from medical x-rays may be as much as 1 in 1,000. There are over 3 billion x-ray images taken annually in the world. Dr. Richard C. Semelka, MD, says patients receiving multiple ct scans today are being exposed to doses of radiation comparable to those given off by the x-ray machines used in the 1930s and 1940s. Cancers do not emanate from x-rays till years later." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Yet a large study of patients in Washington state, published in JAMA in 2001, revealed that the use of ct scans, abdominal ultrasounds, and laparoscopic appendectomy did nothing of the sort: neither the rate of unnecessary appendectomies (removal of what turned out to be a normal appendix) nor the rate of perforated appendixes—the most serious complication of delay in diagnosis?decreased after these newer technologies became available. The saga of back pain and high-tech scans tells a similar story. Back pain is one of the most common complaints seen by primary care physicians." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Ultrafast ct scans provide nearly as much information to cardiologists as angiograms, which are invasive and require half a day's hospital stay. For more information, call 800-469-HEART. ANGINA • Here's the Acupressure Point ^Vcupressure offers a remedy for angina, the pressing or gripping sensation in the chest that many patients control with nitroglycerin medication. If an attack occurs unexpectedly and no medication is available, try pressing the middle of your left wrist about two inches from the base of the hand. Press hard with the nail tip of the right thumb until pain subsides." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"The increased use of diagnostics such as ct scans and mammograms and surgical procedures—a million or so heart surgeries are performed every year - is far worse than it was back then. I consider physicians to be more dangerous to patients now than they were 30 years ago." "How about the health care system in the United States? How would you say it ranks? " Dr. Whitaker: "We actually have one of the worst health care systems in the world. If you compare total life expectancy of a person minus their years of illness, we rank 22nd out of 23 industrialized countries." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The first brain-imaging technologies, ct scans and MRI, were able to image brain structure: what the brain would look like if you could take it out from the skull and place it on a table.71 MRI had the advantage of better-quality images, and there is no need to use ionizing radiation in the brain to create the images. The resolution of MRI is superb—it yields "slices" of brain that look as if they were obtained in a postmortem pathology lab." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A surge in the use of ct scans in the last 25 years has led to millions of patients per year being unnecessarily exposed to dangerous radiation that increases their risk of cancer, according to a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. There are no harmless MRIs or mammograms. Other studies reveal that children exposed to x-rays are more likely to develop breast cancer as adults. Microwave ovens that heat and radiate your food are just as damaging and can cause cancer of the blood, as well as tumors in the brain and other parts of the body. (See section below." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Someone is urging colonoscopy, others newfangled mammography or total body ct scans, or the like. Blood-pressure cuffs dot the landscape. Health fairs abound. After reading the prior chapters, you will appreciate how much this activity serves purveyors far more effectively than the public, if the public is served at all. The "not-for-profit" health insurers are as damnable as the others in this regard, and much more (see chapter 14). Tucked into this rush to preserve your health are the screening programs for prostate cancer." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Even when ct scans did reveal startling images in the 1970s—as did a landmark 1976 study that showed that the brains of people with schizophrenia had much larger ventricles than did "normals"—the results were received with doubt, as schizophrenia was assumed to be a psychological disease.70 As George H. W." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Astonishingly enough, however, the rate of negative appendectomies probably hasn't budged in the two decades since belly ct scans became commonplace. In 2001, a surgeon at the University of Washington named David Flum published a study looking at rates of misdiagnosed appendicitis between 1987 and 1998, precisely the period when CT scanning became widely available and widely used around the country. Flum and his colleagues examined 63,790 records of appendectomies to see whether the rate of mistakes had changed over the eleven-year period. It hadn't. It was 1 c.c percent in 1987 and 1 c." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "In most hospitals, patient records are routinely kept in multiple places, with ct scans and X-rays in one department and medical records in another. During handoffs of patients between one shift of nurses and the next, or when patients move between floors, critical information is regularly lost. Sometimes it seems, as in my friend's case, as if nurses and doctors don't even read a patient's chart before deciding how to treat them. Home Depot does a better job of tracking a box of nails than your local hospital does in tracking you, the patient." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Each year, Americans undergo millions of tests—MRIs, ct scans, blood tests—that do little to help doctors diagnose disease, and that sometimes lead them to find and treat conditions that would never have bothered their patients had they never been found. We undergo back surgery for pain in the absence of evidence that the surgery works, and while some patients improve, others are left in far worse shape—making surgery a crapshoot. Patients contract lethal infections while in the hospital for elective procedures." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "If you happen to live in a region where there are lots of aggressive gynecologists and obstetricians who are performing too many hysterectomies and C-sections, or where physicians are admitting patients to the intensive care unit unnecessarily or sending them for unneeded ct scans, you risk being subjected to the dangers of too much medicine. "Nothing has changed since our Science paper in 1973," says Wennberg. Nothing, of course, except the fact that American medicine has swelled into a behemoth industry equal in size to the entire economy of Italy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"See Box #13-1, Using Animals for Drug Research.) ct scans and PET scans and other imaging techniques each yield information, but some facts can only be discovered by methods that cannot be used with humans. The research studies that have done the most to shed light on the effects of antipsychotics on the brain are those involving macaque monkeys. A research team at the University of Pittsburgh gave groups of macaque monkeys (consisting of six monkeys each) either one of two popular antipsychotics or a placebo for 17-27 months." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Ultrasound and ct scans aren't well correlated with your risk of fracture, while DEXA results are. We suggest one for all women and many men if they're losing height. YOU Tip: Learn Your Treatment Options. The best treatment for osteoporosis is to build peak bone mass (your bone bank) in your twenties and do weight training, but also to prevent bone loss in the first FACTOIP Even the thought of the carbonation I in colas and soft drinks makes your J bones fear their calcium will disappear into your urine." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Fortunately for him, his MRIs and ct scans were essentially unremarkable, but this did not stop one surgeon (from a highly regarded institution) from recommending surgery to cut a nerve he thought may have been the culprit responsible for the pain. The patient wisely chose not to have this procedure. No one was able to give him a clear reason for the pain, and the people he saw approached his symptoms as if each was unrelated to the other. No one addressed what may have been happening in his life." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"While the risks of driving are well known and the subject of major public relations campaigns, those of ct scans remain secret, and those of nuclear energy or the uses of depleted uranium remain masked in mystery. Anyone who has ever struggled with a learning disabled child understands the urge to manage the problem with medication. Children can literally bounce off the walls and furniture of their homes, injuring themselves and their caregivers. Teenagers with untreated learning disabilities tend to fare poorly in school and in the community. Often they end up in legal trouble or in jail." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "The numbers we use to estimate the chances you will get cancer from radiation come from real people who survived the atomic bombings that Table 15-2 Radiation Risks of ct scans.24 Exam Type Machine Setting Relevant Organ Approximate Equivalent Dose to Relevant Organ (mSv) Pediatric Head CT Scan Pediatric Head CT Scan Pediatric Abdominal CT Scan Pediatric Abdominal CT Scan Chest X-ray (PA/lateral) Screening Mammogram Unadjusted3 Adjusted15 Unadjusted Adjusted n/a n/a Brain Brain Stomach Stomach Lung Breast 60 30 25 6 0.01/0." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Each year, Americans undergo millions of tests—MRIs, ct scans, blood tests—that do little to help doctors diagnose disease, and that sometimes lead them to find and treat conditions that would never have bothered their patients had they never been found. We undergo back surgery for pain in the absence of evidence that the surgery works, and while some patients improve, others are left in far worse shape—making surgery a crapshoot. Patients contract lethal infections while in the hospital for elective procedures." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Yet none of them had significant back pain. ct scans and MRIs also turn up other anatomical anomalies that appear significant on the scan but don't cause the patient any problem. If herniated or degenerated disks aren't necessarily the problem, then what causes back pain? The back is a complicated structure, with ligaments, tendons, and muscles, all of which can be injured or strained. About 8 c percent of patients with lower-back pain can't be given a precise diagnosis. Sometimes a ruptured disk coincides with the sudden onset of pain. But that doesn't necessarily mean surgery is called for." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "A hospital's "refuges of profit," as departments that make money are sometimes called, can include cardiology; neurosurgery; orthopedics; high-end imaging, like ct scans and MRIs; and most recently, bariatric surgery, a technique for reducing the size of the stomach to help morbidly obese patients lose weight. Obstetrics departments, which earn razor-thin margins, can be winners in some hospitals and losers in others, depending on whether the hospital delivers enough insured babies in a year to cover such fixed costs as staffing and maintaining birthing rooms and malpractice insurance." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

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