On Sep 25, 12:33*am, "Graham" > wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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> On Sep 20, 5:17 pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
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> > Saerah Gray wrote:
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> > >>>> What about PSA? IME, few public systems pay for that in spite of it
> > >>>> being more effective as a cancer screen than mammograms.
> > >>>> Graham
> > >>> PSA and TPSA have been shown to be NOT 100% reliable. That's probably
> > >>> why. The digital exam is generally more accurate, if "unpleasant".
> > >>> Take it like a man. The "annual indignity" for females is no less
> > >>> "uncomfortable". :-P
> > >> but women grow up having doctors (and others) sticking doodads up
> > >> their whatnot. men at fifty are more squeamish about it.
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> > >> your pal,
> > >> blake
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> > > I am laughing at the phrase "doodads up their whatnot". Still.
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> > Some whatnots are designed to allow doodad entry. Others are not.
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> A pelvic exam is "bimanual". *That is, access to two whatnots is
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> simultaneously.
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> You guys are weak...
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> I can assure you that having a prostate biopsy is not a sign of weakness!
> Graham

You're right about that. I was thinking about the ordinary "turn your
head and cough".

Cindy Hamilton