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Dear Friends:
    I have always shown a propensity for asking questions from childhood on, thru high school and college, etc.  And having the right kind of reading aptitude and love for the written word is called:  Healthy !    If there is one thing in the world you can instill to your offspring, let it be:  THE LOVE AND TRUTH FOR ALMIGHTY GOD --YAHWEH [or the Latinized form:  JEHOVAH], and reading skills, please.   As we all know by now:  "Gott kann nicht Lugen."   --- "God cannot lie."  --Titus 1: 2.  His Word, the Bible is never false or untrue... but it is our ignorance, or lack of the Holy Spirit why we can't somehow understand stuff, therein.  And while we are still on the Truth, we are all not given the same 'gifts' when we are born, as some of us gain, appreciate more wisdom as time goes on.  So... Let us all 'use what ever we have been given by our Father in Heaven,' instead of constantly complain that someone else has 'more than we do'... Duh.  Ha!


I still have 2--lovely, highly intelligent sister, Linda and Sue, and lately, after the passing of our dear brother Albert D. Schuckman, a few months ago, I have asked for my sisters' opinions.   If I got this right, Linda thought:  'If a person KNOWS that they are already dying of a certain sickness/ illness, why should they opt for some goofy surgery that won't help the current problem ---- but will cause a lot of pain, discomfort and anxiety, just to squeeze more $$$ money into the doctor's pockets ?? 
   I believe that years ago, more professionals had higher, godly morals, directed to HELP THE PATIENT, FIRST!  And, "Do no Evil."  Now days, anything goes, moral or not.  Sorry to paint a doomsday message again on this picture, but the Bible says that things in the entire world will get a lot worse before they get better. 
So, if you all want to be realistic and live in the real world -- 'get with the Bible program, today.'   And in the meantime, save yourself a lot of pain, discomfort and money, by double checking what your so-called, 'doctor' tells you to do.   From what I have read, other modern, state of the Art, countries include Herbal remedies and multifaceted aspects to patient treatments that really work and succeed!   
   Let me send you all a 'wake up call/ notice.'  We hardly EVER hear of a Big Pharma company or syndicate develop a 'CURE' for any disease or condition, dear friends!!  They just want to "TREAT the disease!"  So they can continue to 'milk that cash cow' for as long as they possibly can!  Why would Big Pharma ever want to shoot themselves in the foot by killing their 'sacred cow' that keeps on giving ?   Such is the extreme selfishness and greed of this world, controlled by Satan the Devil.... and his human organization, bums.


So, now we see what any uphill battle President D.J. Trump has --with only a few Brigades of honorable warriors, instead of whole Divisions that he really needs to help him fight all the greed and corruption imbedded in the system, decades long.   Remember, we were not looking to install a Pastor/ Preacher to the USA Executive Administration,  but someone with the 'where with all' and sheer power to get things done, no matter what!  I used to also be a sub contractor/ businessman in my younger days while being laid off from Chrysler, trying to build my own business in my age 40's and it was so hard.  I was blessed to learn so much, but thankful that Chrysler called me back to work in Kenosha, Wisconsin., in May of 1995, to finish my 30.5 years and retired with full benefits at age 54, in 2002!  PTL --Praise the Lord.


And what about the recent mass murders in Texas and Ohio?  The 'unwashed' heathen crowds have already blamed our President...Duh !  Remember:  It is our 2nd Amendment that protects all the other Amendments!   Has there ever ben even ONE person that committed a gun crime or murder who also held a legal CCW PERMIT?  [A concealed pistol carry permit].  But we have been thru all this hash so many times.  Ponder upon these things, and Prepare.  


Warm Regards,
Thomas G Schuckman
Email:  tschuckman@aol.com

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These Medical Tests May Do More Harm Than Good In Older Patients

For many, frequent trips to the doctor are just part of old age.
And while many elderly men and women consider going to the doctor just part of their routine, many geriatricians, cancer specialists and health system analysts say they are being subject to what they consider “unnecessary testing."
They say that testing our nation’s oldest members is highly unlikely to uncover lethal disease, is extremely expensive and could prove to be harmful due to the potential invasive nature of follow-up testing and treatment.
However, even with these warnings and without the support of many geriatric health experts this type of “overdiagnosis” testing is running rampant in the United States.
Primarily due to the existing medical culture, awareness campaigns funded by Big Pharma and diagnostic testing companies and the financial incentive programs aimed at doctors.
“By looking for cancers in people who are unlikely to benefit, "we find something that wasn't going to hurt the patient, and then we hurt the patient," said Dr. Sei Lee, an associate professor of geriatrics at the University of California-San Francisco.
In fact, nearly 1 in 5 women suffering with cognitive impairment, including the most elderly are still getting regular mammograms according to American Journal of Public Health.¹
In spite of the fact that they have a shorter life expectancy to begin with.
And according to a 2014 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine ², 55 percent of elderly men at high risk for death over the next 10 years are still getting PSA tests for prostate cancer.
Once people reach their 70’s and 80’s cancer screenings often detect slow growing tumors and these types of tumors are unlikely to cause problems during the patient’s lifetime anyway.
According to Dr. Deborah Korenstein, chief of general internal medicine at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center…
“Normally, these patients die of other causes, including things like heart disease, dementia and pneumonia. And they usually die long before their cancer would have ever become life-threatening."
She went on to say that, “Prostate cancers, in particular, are often harmless”.
Statistics show that patients with dementia rarely live longer than a few years anyway and unnecessary testing simply adds to their confusion.³
The problem with cancer screenings is that both patients and doctors alike, are highly enthusiastic about them.
However, both tend to overestimate their benefits.
And they often underestimate their risk.
"It generally takes about 10 years to see benefit from cancer screening, at least in terms of a mortality benefit," Korenstein said.
This excessive testing has even gotten to the point where some women are being screened for tumors in organs they don’t even have.
One study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that nearly two-thirds of women over the age of 30 who had undergone a hysterectomy received at least one cervical cancer screening. And a full one-third of those women had been screened in the past year.⁴

Screening Terminal Cancer Patients…Why?

The testing trend has gotten so out of hand that even patients who’ve been diagnosed with terminal cancers are still being screened for additional malignancies.
In one 2010 study, nine percent of women with advanced cancers – including tumors of the lung, colon or pancreas – also received a mammogram and 6 percent received a cervical cancer screen.⁵
In addition, 15 percent of the men on Medicare with incurable cancer were screened for prostate cancer.
And while screenings can extend life and improve the quality of life for healthy, younger adults, they have a tendency to cause harm to the elderly.
Including anxiety, invasive follow-ups and particularly harsh treatments.
Dr. Cary Gross, a professor at the Tale School of Medicine says,
"In patients well into their 80s, with other chronic conditions, it's highly unlikely that they will receive any benefit from screening, and more likely that the harms will outweigh the benefits."
When doctors screen patients near the end of their life, they often find tumors that don’t need to be found let alone treated. 

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