For 30 years, at least, there has been this push for screening, on the faith that somehow if you do a couple of things yearly it will catch serious problems and save lives. Sometimes it does if the practitioner is really diligent. I lost that faith when the insurance companies got into differentiating the kinds of checkups which would pay for different services or tests. Kind of like cable bundles, you always need to buy more than you want to get two channels you actually like. Then the docs would have to decide to do overlapping screening or hope they picked the right thing. Now I believe it is mostly makework and bennies for insurance.
For 30 years, at least, there has been this push for screening, on the faith that somehow if you do a couple of things yearly it will catch serious problems and save lives. Sometimes it does if the practitioner is really diligent. I lost that faith when the insurance companies got into differentiating the kinds of checkups which would pay for different services or tests. Kind of like cable bundles, you always need to buy more than you want to get two channels you actually like. Then the docs would have to decide to do overlapping screening or hope they picked the right thing. Now I believe it is mostly makework and bennies for insurance.