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Share a piece of lore about yourself Yes I stole this from musky folks site…I feel like we’ll get better answers here lol

I once correctly diagnosed retinoblastoma in my best friend’s son. Was looking at their vacation photos on Facebook and realized the red eye effect was wrong in a way I’d read about years before. A message from me lead to him getting his eye out a week later. www.suncommercial.com/gcdailyworld...

Well done. Early detection is key! 👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Absolutely! If this was my one good thing I’m glad it was this. Interestingly enough and speaking of early detection, our son, who is 7 now, was diagnosed as an infant with neuroblastoma, a small cancerous tumor on his adrenal gland. Which was, of course, terrifying. The fascinating part was…

(And you probably already know this give your profile) Studies have shown that neuroblastomas are actually fairly common and they disappear at a very high rate in infants. Japan for instance, was doing mass screenings in the 70s. The problem was that finding them often lead to worse outcomes…

…because usually they just go away. Which, thankfully, is what happened in our case. One of the best days of my life. I realize this kind of comes off as a “well not always” retort but your comment (which is obviously correct) just made me think of this which I’ve always found fascinating.

This is true for several things in Pediatrics. We used to screen for something but it turned out to cause more harm than good. Medicine is a constantly evolving field which is why it's so awful that Trump is gutting science. We will lose decades & people will suffer & due unnecessarily. 😔😡