Nov 21
ams_ commented on The Panic Over Mammograms.
ams_ commented on The Panic Over Mammograms.
@31- a mammogram is not the same as a breast exam in the doctor's office, where they just feel your boobs.
Nov 20
ams_ commented on The Panic Over Mammograms.
ams_ commented on The Panic Over Mammograms.
@27- With all respect for your story, I don't think the new guidelines eliminate doctor breast-exams, just self exams. Or did you find the lump yourself during a routine breast exam? I think the research shows that most of the lumps women find themselves are not during regular self-exams, but more often through normal touching, or their partners find them.
Good luck this thanksgiving, that's a real bummer.
Good luck this thanksgiving, that's a real bummer.
Nov 20
ams_ commented on The Panic Over Mammograms.
ams_ commented on The Panic Over Mammograms.
I don't really understand the controversy here. If this is where the evidence is leading us, then doctors are going to implement the new screening procedures regardless of health care reform. Evidence Based Practice is the expectation now.
We just changed our standard practice guidelines in BC a few months ago, with more time between PAPs (for those with a certain number of consecutive normal results) and we no longer recommend self breast-exams.
We just changed our standard practice guidelines in BC a few months ago, with more time between PAPs (for those with a certain number of consecutive normal results) and we no longer recommend self breast-exams.
Nov 16
ams_ commented on Anyone Stupid Enough To Go to the Olympics....
ams_ commented on Anyone Stupid Enough To Go to the Olympics....
I'm with you 27.
I was pissed about the olympics from the start, and am still scared about how it will change our city (will I ever be able to afford an apartment in Vancouver again??), and am very curious to see what charter rights abuses will be perpetrated during the games (Will this be the straw that finally breaks the RCMP?)
However, the vitriol is unattractive. I bought two tickets to Germany vs. Sweden men's hockey, so I can cheer on my beloved Swedes and boo the despicable Germans.
It's going to happen, you mind as well not give yourself an ulcer about it 24. If you want to do something volunteer with the BC civil liberties association. They are doing a lot of good work leading up to the games.
I was pissed about the olympics from the start, and am still scared about how it will change our city (will I ever be able to afford an apartment in Vancouver again??), and am very curious to see what charter rights abuses will be perpetrated during the games (Will this be the straw that finally breaks the RCMP?)
However, the vitriol is unattractive. I bought two tickets to Germany vs. Sweden men's hockey, so I can cheer on my beloved Swedes and boo the despicable Germans.
It's going to happen, you mind as well not give yourself an ulcer about it 24. If you want to do something volunteer with the BC civil liberties association. They are doing a lot of good work leading up to the games.
Nov 8
ams_ commented on Reading Today: Two Poets and the Man Behind the Douglas Fir.
ams_ commented on Reading Today: Two Poets and the Man Behind the Douglas Fir.
Was it Douglas who got mauled to death in a pit of wild boars? Or was that Menziis? Pretty gory.
Nov 5
ams_ commented on Connecting Three Serial Killers.
ams_ commented on Connecting Three Serial Killers.
my bad, the rendering plant was on commercial.
Nov 5
ams_ commented on Connecting Three Serial Killers.
ams_ commented on Connecting Three Serial Killers.
Commercial Drive? wtf? Pickton had his farm in coquitlam, not right in the center of the city.
Oct 18
ams_ commented on Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father, There Is No Morality Without Religion, Etc..
ams_ commented on Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father, There Is No Morality Without Religion, Etc..
At least there's this:
"A doctor testified that the boy's penis has healed nicely and looks normal"
And also this:
"In April, 2007, D.J.W. dosed his son with honey wine, placed him on clean garbage bags and a diaper on his kitchen floor, and used razor blades boiled in water as well as a veterinary powder suitable for livestock and horses to deal with bleeding. The boy said “ouch,” cried for less than two minutes and fell asleep. The father gave the boy ice cream “and told [his son] he could pick all the movies for a week,” said the ruling."
Sick bastard, and yes, the kid has been taken away.
Dan, you should really start linking to the globe and mail instead of the damn vancouver sun
"A doctor testified that the boy's penis has healed nicely and looks normal"
And also this:
"In April, 2007, D.J.W. dosed his son with honey wine, placed him on clean garbage bags and a diaper on his kitchen floor, and used razor blades boiled in water as well as a veterinary powder suitable for livestock and horses to deal with bleeding. The boy said “ouch,” cried for less than two minutes and fell asleep. The father gave the boy ice cream “and told [his son] he could pick all the movies for a week,” said the ruling."
Sick bastard, and yes, the kid has been taken away.
Dan, you should really start linking to the globe and mail instead of the damn vancouver sun
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