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> “Hey! CRC is going up! You should get screened!”

Try asking a doctor for asymptomatic screening (for anything), they usually say "There's a schedule for such screenings at age X, you're too young for that. There's also proven negative effects of excessive screenings."

Which kinda makes sense, as they supposed to have protocols/schedules for all kinds of healthcare. We're talking here about changing that protocols/schedules. But doctors (and insurances) are generally reluctant.

So my actionable question is "How do I convince my doctor to get the screening?"

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Just say you saw blood in your stool. You can also google some of the symptoms and say you have some of the more ambiguous ones.

Yeah, blood in the stool should get it ordered.

This.

In my 40s I asked my doc what I should get screened for and when. He said to wait until 50. Now I wait here on death row with stage 4 colorectal cancer.

> In my 40s I asked my doc what I should get screened for and when. He said to wait until 50.

What did you want your doctor to say, instead?

what do you think? what do you think he's going to say when he has stage 4 cancer?

I just don't understand why the doctor would say anything different than what the national screening guidelines suggest?

I think he's arguing that guidelines are dumb/outdated

I think the guidelines are fine - we can't stop everyone's disease and that's not what the purpose of these screening tests are.

that's because you don't have stage 4 cancer

> that's because you don't have stage 4 cancer

Several friends broke their arms falling off of swings as children. This maybe means that children should no longer be allowed to have access to swings?

in the case of stage 4 cancer, what is the swing?

> So my actionable question is "How do I convince my doctor to get the screening?"

I guess we have to pay for it ourselves. It's not exactly cheap, but perhaps worth it.

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