When contemplating screening

In fact, in a corresponding editorial, Dr. Stephanie Thompson

and Dr. Marcello Tonelli from the department of medicine at

the University of Alberta, Canada argue health check-ups may

be waste of healthcare resources, advising physicians to

proceed cautiously. They write:

Since patients who seek or are willing to undergo routine

screening are generally healthier than those who are not

(indicating that general health checks are least likely to

reach those who could benefit the most), and because most

people do not receive interventions that are known to be

beneficial, general health checks do not appear to be a wise

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use of scarce healthcare resources.

…When contemplating screening, practitioners should focus on

tests that are targeted to the patient’s age, sex, and

specific risk factors, and that are supported by high-quality

evidence. All screening tests (general health checks or

focused screenings based on age, sex, or specific risk

factors) have potential for benefits and harms, so

consideration of patient preferences is critical, especially

for those tests where such preferences vary between

individuals or where the overall benefit:harm ratio is less

favorable.

The authors conclude that more research is needed to target

better methods for identifying disease and to further explore

the possible misleading and harmful effects of general health

check-ups. ”All in all, we are certainly not seeing the

entire picture of the harms,” says Krogsb?ll.

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The question is whether others will follow him.
Early this month the President suggested he be addressed as
“Sri” instead of the time-honoured “His Excellency” or
Honourable” and since then invitation cards have followed
the directive.
Decades after Independence, government correspondence and
public speeches made by politicians and officialdom are still
steeped in the language of flattery and deference.
Politicians have got used to bowing and scraping so much that
they regard the lingo as part of their status package.
Speeches can’t ever omit the initial references to, “Most
respected minister…”, “His Excellency Mr…” or
“Honourable Mantriji…” Not too long ago an advertisement
in Karnataka for the inauguration of a civic project listed
out dignitaries who would “grace the occasion”, and among
them was a “Worshipful Mayor”.  Whether the last mentioned
was deserving of such veneration wasn’t too hard to guess.
For almost all through her tenure, the first citizen had no
clue to the mounting problems of the city and was frequently
fed by the ventriloquist voice of her husband or other party
seniors.
Then there are scores of other netas with a record of
corruption and malpractice or an active role in divisive
politics who continue to be greeted with honorifics that
smack of the colonial era when burra sahibs stomped across
the cantonments. At least for the sheer inaptness of the word
in such cases, we must shun it.
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Over the next 30 years, this dynamic--whereby concerns that were essentially environmental in nature shaped national security policy--affected nuclear power, as well. To their opponents, atomic power plants were ticking time bombs dotting the American landscape, regularly extruding toxic waste and threatening much worse. Environmentalists believed, in the words of Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, that "nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust." By the late '70s, many opponents of nuclear power and many supporters of nuclear disarmament had come to see themselves merely as different manifestations of the same movement. The panic that followed the Three Mile Island incident helped fertilize the Nuclear Freeze movement, which called on the United States and the Soviet Union to immediately stop the arms race. (The mayor of nearby Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, actually proposed making Hiroshima its "sister city," despite the fact that not a single person had died at TMI.) Conversely, when fear of nuclear war peaked in the early '80s, public opinion turned against further reactor construction. The nuclear industry, already hammered by exorbitant cost overruns and slowing energy demand, entered a long slumber.
It's difficult to pinpoint when atomic-energy optimists began touting the phrase "nuclear renaissance," but the Bush administration's National Energy Policy, published in May 2001 by Dick Cheney's infamously industry-friendly task force, certainly marked a turning point. That document painted a stark picture, in which electricity demand would grow by 45 percent over the next 20 years and existing supplies would not keep pace. "America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s," it said. The report called for increasing America's domestic energy supplies, most controversially by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but perhaps most importantly by supporting "the expansion of nuclear energy in the United States as a major component of our national energy policy."