@rooeytoo To your first question: Yes, people are hypnotized by movie stars.
Now, about your link. That video; well, I could almost weep it makes me so happy there are doctors like that. The technology shown is incredible! I didn’t know it existed. Indon’t think he was saying all the annual tests we do now should be thrown out. I interpreted what he said as doing them is a waste for patients and money if and when we have mire information about the risks the particular individual has. He mentioned genetic testing. Most people do not have genetic testing done. As that gets cheaper and more available we will have more information. He showed doing an EKG in your phone, or an echo on your phone, that will save an incredible amount of money.
I personally think breast mamogram every year from the age of 40 is a waste. When a study came out saying that everyone freaked out you might remember. I have never met someone who had breast cancer in their 40’s where it was seen on mammogram. I don’t even mean caught, I mean seen. Everyone I know who had breast cancer that young found it themselves and when they had a mammogram it was normal or inconclusive. I’m sure there have been women in their 40’s who had breast cancer caught on mammogram, I obviously only know so many women who had breast cancer in their 40’s, so it isn’t like I can make some sort of scientific declaration, but that has been my experience.
Women are more concerned about breast cancer than heart disease, when heart disease is the much bigger risk. Except for women who are more likely to get breast cancer. The average woman has a 1 in 8 chance of breast cancer. The average woman has a 1 in 3 chance of heart disease (those are probably USA stats). But, Angelina Jolie, her personal chance of breast cancer is much higher than heart disease. That’s what this doctor on the video is talking about, using that information to cater individual health care.