Category: john c mchugh m.d.

Incremenatlism…the HHS says that the PSA rates a “D” and hence insurance is not required to pay for it…then Medicare won’t pay for it….the extrapolation is that the Government by virtue of decrees (USPSTF) guides the healthcare dollar which in turn de facto tells doctors what to do. Far fetched……?

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is “an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services.”^[1] The task force, a panel of primary care physicians and epidemiologists, is funded, staffed, and appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.^[

Funded….staffed….appointed… by the HHS….and you wonder how it was that the AMA voted for ObamaCare, how they got “doctors” to pose in front of the White House in white…

you can have your so called social security, i left my steady job today….I’m going somewhere in Montana big city turn me loose and set me free………

A lot of patients will come to my office after a positive biopsy of the prostate and after weeks of research tell me they have decided to have their prostate removed by the “laser.”

Well with all the stuff out there it stands to reason that things can get confusing.

The only laser treatment for the prostate is for obstructive voiding symptoms of a benign nature. If you want to remove the prostate for cancer it has to be “removed.” A procedure such as the Greenlight laser prostatectomy is only makes a channel in the prostate to help the male void better, i.e. make a slow stream strong…spell your name in the snow, knock the bark of a tree, turn gravel over in…