With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.
I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?
The worst possible thing in the world is to have someone who doesn't believe in you.
