
Guidelines for health are meant to guide, not mandate
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When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force came out last week against the routine use of aspirin as a preventive in people over 60, citing the risk of bleeding, it did not change my clinical decision-making one iota.
This brings to mind another time the USPSTF tried to alter the practice of clinical medicine with a superimposed guideline, when they discouraged the routine use of the Prostate Specific Antigen in man over the age of 70, despite the fact that the PSA had led to the earlier diagnosis of prostate cancer leading to more surgical cures.
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