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I find the discussion in this thread so frustrating (not your or anybody's fault).

I find the discussion in this thread so frustrating (not your or anybody's fault). It's 2015, and there's still no general agreement on which tests to run to tell if you are healthy or not. We don't even have firm evidence whether your annual physical with a doctor is a net positive or negative. Meanwhile, people are dying decades prematurely due to uncaught illnesses that we know how to fix. We have a check engine light for our car engine. Why on earth don't we have one for our bodies yet?

Posted by brandonb on May 2, 2015, 9:28 PM

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I find the discussion in this thread so frustrating (not your or anybody's fault).

brandonbMay 2, 2015, 9:28 PM

I find the discussion in this thread so frustrating (not your or anybody's fault). It's 2015, and there's still no general agreement on which tests to run to tell if you are healthy or not. We don't even have firm evidence whether your annual physical with a doctor is a net positive or negative. Meanwhile, people are dying decades prematurely due to uncaught illnesses that we know how to fix. We have a check engine light for our car engine. Why on earth don't we have one for our bodies yet?

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