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Leaders in the field of medicine are embracing the fact that we do far too many unnecessary tests and procedures that could account for a third to a half of our $3.2 trillion annual health care spending. In the past few weeks, nine major medical groups have each come up with five commonly ordered tests in their practices that are overused. This is part of the “Choose Wisely” campaign that is led by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and Consumer Reports. Here are some of the tests and recommendations that many believe are overused. Not all groups and all recommendations are listed here. Family physicians recommend against Xrays of the lower back during the first six weeks after symptom development; antibiotics for mild-tomoderate sinus infections; a bone-density test for women under 65 or men under 70 who have no risk factors for osteoporosis; and pap tests for women under 21 or those who have had a hysterectomy. The American College of Physicians, which represents internists, questions the need for a routine EKG if the patient is at low risk of heart disease; CT or MRI scans if the person has fainted or lost consciousness and has no neurological problems; and preoperative chest X-rays if the patient has no lung problems. Cancer doctors recommend against the treatment of many tumors if the patient is weak and frail and there is no proven evidence that treatment will succeed. Expensive scans -- including PET, CT BEL AIRwith GREENS or bone scans -- should not be done in patients Dr. David Lipschitz is the author of the book “Breakearly-stage breast or prostate cancer, 6th norpg.should ing the Rules of Aging.” To find out more about Dr. David Dec. 4, 2011 there be excessive monitoring of patients who have Lipschitz and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page had curative treatment for breast cancer. Cardiologists recommend against routine at www.creators.com. More information is available at: www.drdavidhealth.com exercise stress tests if the patient is at low risk of COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM having heart problems and against stress tests or CT scans of the heart in patients with known heart disease who are symptom-free. Gastroenterologists recommend the lowest effective dose in the treatment of gastric reflux. If a ‘Big government is like an infant: An colonoscopy screening for cancer is normal, the test alimentary canal with a big appetite at one should not be repeated for 10 years. If small polyps end and no sense of responsibility are found, the test should be repeated every five -at the other.’ - Ronald Reagan

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of-living adjustments (two very realistic and rational reform scenarios), I would have lost the election in a landslide. My opponent would have run negative ads claiming that I was out to gut grandma’s Social Security checks. I can envision the 30 second spot now. There would have been a picture of me taken on my worst bad hair and ugly face day, and next to me would be a sweet little old lady staring at her Social Security check in horror. A very ominous-sounding voiceover would say, “Did you know that Tom Margenau has a plan to slash our Social Security?” Then we would have seen my opponent, as handsome as the day is long, walking though a field of flowers with lots of happy, smiling and adoring senior citizens surrounding him. And you’d have heard him say, “Vote for me, Wally Wonderful. I love my grandma and I won’t touch her Social Security check with a ten foot pole.” And sadly, the voters would have bought it. But as I said, I think the mood of the country is changing. I think folks are ready to acknowledge that we have to do something to deal with Social Security’s long-range problems. So what can we do? I’ve used this column many times to offer some suggestions for reform. These aren’t solutions that I’ve dreamt up. They are commonly cited proposals for dealing with Social Security’s funding problems. Even though you will hear all kinds of ideas over the next couple of years for changing Social Security -- from radical right wing proposals to “privatize” the system to nonsense left wing suggestions to “leave well enough alone” -- I will bet money that two or three of the following reforms will eventually be adopted and passed into law: --A long-range increase in the retirement age, probably to age 68; --An increase in the number of years used to compute a Social Security retirement benefit, from the current 35 year base to 38, which will have the effect of slightly reducing future retirement benefis; --An increase in the Social Security taxable wage base, probably to $250,000; --A long-range and small increase in the payroll tax, perhaps from the current 6.2 percent to 6.5 percent; and --A small decrease in the annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) paid to Social Security beneficiaries. Here is one final note about the timeframe

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for dealing with Social Security reform. Most of my readers were in their 20s and 30s the last time the program faced a financial shortfall. This was in the late 1970s, and at the time, Social Security was only five years away from insolvency. Many of you were too young to give Social Security a second thought. But a series of amendments in 1983 set the system on the course it’s still on today, putting the system in the black for the next half century. I’m not saying we should once again wait until Social Security is five years away from bankruptcy. The sooner we deal with Social Security reform, the better. But I am saying we don’t need to panic.

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Bacteria is around us everywhere. It’s true that most germs don’t affect us, but why not Creators News Syndicate take a few precautions to help make sure they don’t? Entire books are written on the subject of disease prevention, but room here allows only for a few tips: Doctors recommend scrubbing our hands for ● On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific least 30 seconds, especially after using a public restand Central Pacific railroads meet up in room, and avoid setting your purse on the floor in the Promontory, Utah, making transcontinenstall (the next place you set it could be your kitchen tal railroad travel possible for the first time table!) Disinfecting shopping cart handles is always in U.S. history. 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three years of his collegiate career, Wooden seamlessly entered the collegiate coaching world and achieved success never before -- or since -- heard of. Both men were American titans. Wooden and Edison achieved things that parents all over the world wish for their kids, they saw nothing and made something. I mean, big stuff. But Edison came from a time when your boss could box your ears in with a two-palm smash (which actually made him part deaf). And though Edison created things that would go on to shape our lives, securing 1,093 patents in the process, Wooden defined it in ways that Edison could never have dreamed of ... a career that produced 1,207 wins from his high-school days and beyond. To put it in simple terms, Edison was able to identify a need and then make plans to fulfill it in ways that tended toward the “throw it up there and see what sticks” method. Wooden was far more principled in his approach. Granted, he wasn’t creating light from electricity or reproducing sound on wax, but his legacy actually might surpass Edison’s in ways that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City. (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc

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