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So if this article is not against regular blood checkups then what...?

"“From a health perspective, the annual physical exam is basically worthless,” Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has written after reviewing the research.

"Almost nothing in the complete annual physical examination is based on evidence," Michael Rothberg, who directs the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute Center for Value-Based Care Research, wrote in the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association in 2014. "Why, then, do we continue to examine healthy patients?""

At the turn of the century in the early 1900s we were nuking babies' thyroids cause the only corpses they could find had diseased thyroids and the healthy babies had them. So obviously something must be wrong.

There's always value in the counter example to see where our processes breakdown and fail.

What we learn tomorrow in how abnormal our bodies are from another?

So bloodwork yes but no touch...?

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