Re: color doppler ultrasound to detect prostate cancer?

In article <1250cr7mn041c5c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, gordonb.m2nws@xxxxxxxxxxx
(Gordon Burditt) wrote:

If a 50 year old person received a virtual colonoscopy every 5 years, he
or she is putting their future health in danger. There is usally NO danger
involved in getting a normal colonoscopy every 5 years--after the age of
50 years old.

I'll disagree about NO danger. Anesthesia, even if it doesn't
actually put the patient completely to sleep, presents some risks.
So does the recovery.

Just getting taken out of the hospital and being driven home not
understanding what was going on, barely able to walk, and half-conscious
presents some risk that I'd fall over and hurt myself. And I think
I did fall over a couple of times after my (real) colonoscopy, but
I was too out of it to really notice and the damage wasn't very
noticible several days later.

Getting left home alone in that condition presents a very real
possibility I don't have a chance to actually get out of bed and
take care of myself before dehydration, starvation, and/or hypoglycemia
take over (after 3 1/2 days) and make sure I never will. That made
it somewhat riskier than Russian Roulette with 2 bullets in the
gun.

Gordon L. Burditt

Gordon,
Please note that I used the words "usally no danger" in my post. There is
always some risk involved in almost all invasive medical procedures.
That's the reason we have to sign all of those papers prior to surgery.
Those papers help protect doctors from lawsuits when they screw up--such
as cutting off the wrong arm or leg.
Jason

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