Data geeks, look out.
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 2:06 pm
An interesting article on the potential for problems in the pursuit of health.
The article conforms to the aphorism, "those who think they're healthy, haven't had enough tests..."
https://quillette.com/2019/05/17/a-cont ... al-health/
Full disclosure: I wrote a book about medical screening and managed to spend lots of time looking at the data on the seedy side of 'preventive screening.'
One of my physician friends had full praise for my book: "It seems mostly true, and he's not as crazy as one would expect..."
The article conforms to the aphorism, "those who think they're healthy, haven't had enough tests..."
https://quillette.com/2019/05/17/a-cont ... al-health/
Full disclosure: I wrote a book about medical screening and managed to spend lots of time looking at the data on the seedy side of 'preventive screening.'
One of my physician friends had full praise for my book: "It seems mostly true, and he's not as crazy as one would expect..."