At home screening isn’t eliminating the Doctor. Rather it is a step to see if intervention is needed.
At home bowel cancer screening, is a method to reduce the amount of colonoscopies needed. As you only scope those that present with symptoms or the bowel screening comes back positive. Otherwise you would have to scope based on age.
Even if a test was 99% accurate, you know damn well that some family would sue their doctor (or whoever they felt was responsible) if they missed a diagnosis due to a false negative.
Even worse, false positives would create chaos at home.
I’d still support the use of at-home tests, provided you understand the limitations!
Id love to know how many “at-home” tests we could perform fairly accurately. Reduce the need to go see doctors.
At home screening isn’t eliminating the Doctor. Rather it is a step to see if intervention is needed.
At home bowel cancer screening, is a method to reduce the amount of colonoscopies needed. As you only scope those that present with symptoms or the bowel screening comes back positive. Otherwise you would have to scope based on age.
The problem comes down to liability, I’m sure.
Even if a test was 99% accurate, you know damn well that some family would sue their doctor (or whoever they felt was responsible) if they missed a diagnosis due to a false negative.
Even worse, false positives would create chaos at home.
I’d still support the use of at-home tests, provided you understand the limitations!