I donāt blame them. I could write a book on the number of medical errors I see and experience.
Seems to me medicine has become a paradoxāvarious diagnostics and preventives are being pushed on the entire population to prevent problems that take place among few individuals. Yet those populations that are more at risk of certain problems arenāt being advised to start getting screened, possibly earlier than the general population.
For example, HPV vaccine is being pushed on families of pre teen girls when 1) HPV+ isnāt the majority of Pap results, and 2) The majority of women who test positive ultimately clear the infection, with few going on to develop cervical cancer:
However, among Asian descended populations, the incidence of virally caused cancers is higher:
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.21501
As part of genetics testing for newborns in MA, numerous tests are performed, including for sickle cell trait:
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/pediatric-newborn-medicine/nicu/newborn-screening
There isnāt a large black American or emigre population here, meaning relatively few babies will test positive for sickle cell. Yet it seems Black Americans, who tend to develop colonic cancers at earlier ages and more tumors on the right side of the colon, leading to poorer outcomes, arenāt encouraged to get screened with colonoscopies at earlier ages:
Itās a paradox. Black Americans are more likely to experience discrimination.
Yet, perhaps to avoid charges of racism, the entire population is encouraged to screen for tests for problems that concentrate in certain populations, while those in those populations arenāt encouraged to be monitored for the problems at earlier ages.
Canāt say I blame anyone who doesnāt trust government or medically encouraged testing or preventives.