#Australia #SkinCancer #SkinCancerCheck
Warning
You will be forced to make medical decisions without being informed of this, without adequate training, & without knowledge of the possible consequences.
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Due to #PatientLedMedicine ethics, doctors should offer to check intimate areas, or do so if the patient request such.
If neither of these occur then intimate areas such as buttocks & groin will not be checked.
The patient will not be informed of the risk of not getting these areas checked.
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#SkinCancerCheck
... clinical recommendations #SkinCancerCollegeOfAustralasia (SCCA)
" If no concern is raised, these areas are not examined by default, in accordance with SCCA guidance, which emphasises a patient-led and consent-based approach to intimate area examination."
Fine. But the patient is not qualified, and frequently not physically able, to inspect the area beneath underwear themselves
They're at a danger of undiagnosed melanomas.
And they're not advised of this risk.
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The insanity of a patient-led approach to medicine is spreading.
#Oncologist (with some 20 years of training and treating patients, involvement in research, reading journals on latest advances) has newly diagnosed cancer patient sitting in front of them (patient is untrained, shocked, befuddled.)
Oncologist: "What would you like to do?"
#PatientLedApproachToMedicine
#SkinCancerCheck
#UnethicalMedicine
#MedicalStandards
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