As a practicing oncologist, relatively simple guidelines are ignored by many ,possibly a majority of my peers. This includes inappropriate use of pet scans and eternal blood tests for surveillance of early stage breast cancer. If we can’t even get physicians to stop ordering a useless blood test, no way we’ll get a procedure like screeni…
As a practicing oncologist, relatively simple guidelines are ignored by many ,possibly a majority of my peers. This includes inappropriate use of pet scans and eternal blood tests for surveillance of early stage breast cancer. If we can’t even get physicians to stop ordering a useless blood test, no way we’ll get a procedure like screening colonoscopy that makes millions for hospitals and physicians to go the way of menopausal HRT. Not going to happen unless payers stop paying.
As a practicing oncologist, relatively simple guidelines are ignored by many ,possibly a majority of my peers. This includes inappropriate use of pet scans and eternal blood tests for surveillance of early stage breast cancer. If we can’t even get physicians to stop ordering a useless blood test, no way we’ll get a procedure like screening colonoscopy that makes millions for hospitals and physicians to go the way of menopausal HRT. Not going to happen unless payers stop paying.