Delaying necessary medical procedures like cancer surgeries, root canals, or addressing emergencies like heart attacks and strokes can have negative health consequences. — Whalespan
Delaying necessary medical procedures like cancer surgeries, root canals, or addressing emergencies like heart attacks and strokes can have negative health consequences.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“so you've people who are electing to delay cancer surgeries say or or as you say they have routine or more routine emergencies like strokes and heart attacks and either they are reluctant to go to the hospital or they go and the beds aren't there”