Sunday, August 26, 2012

This sh*t makes me crazy

A well-meaning girlfriend sent a link to a bunch of "us girls" and it makes me so scared to think of how many women are going to be abused by mammograms.

Here is the link (only 2:58 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e3udzHIiVs&feature=player_embedded

And here is my reply:
I totally agree with her mission to violate the law and to stand by her Hippocratic oath and NOT follow the Obamacare guidelines for mammograms as it is NOT the government's duty to dictate our health care.

However, I totally disagree with her on the need for mammograms and following the American Cancer Society guidelines.  I also disagree that screenings reduce the number of breast cancer deaths by 30-40%.  That's a pretty wide percentage.  Which is it, 30 or 40 percent?  But, her bad understanding of statistics aside, the actual number of breast cancer deaths has RISEN since we started having mammograms annually (http://www.naturalnews.com/010886_breast_cancer_mammograms.html )

For those of you who don't know this or who have chosen to ignore this fact, I had a CLEAN mammogram in October of '06 and the very next month I found a huge lump that, to this day I know was caused by the crushing blow of the mammogram.

They just want us to be scared so they can control our will and our pocketbooks.  Think of how many people would be out of work if a cure was ever found.  It will never happen so don't think an evasive procedure like ionizing radiation crushed through your mammary gland is going to keep you from dying of breast cancer.  You have a much better chance of survival without it.