CT screening for homeless people | When common sense in medicine dies, bad research wins
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Professor
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You know why they did this, someone is making money! it is always money, follow the cashflow of the great material continuum.
Huge money in using useless diagnostics
Yeah, they are making the money we give them in good faith to work towards curing cancer
I don't donate to those large cancer cash cows either.
I recently donated to a small charity that actually seems to spend most of the money they get from us on helping families with transportation, food, and other useful stuff but the CEO takes a 160k salary. The seven or so docs on the board don't take a cent
Looks like they spend just about what they get every year on average
I thought the same thing. There's a lot of gifting when it comes to homeless outreach programs...
This seems like the kind of study you'd see in a satirical website.
What's next? Cholesterol management in death row in mates?
Excellent lol
That's probably on their list. Or sex change, heart & liver transplants, etc. Actually I think there was a guy on death row in WA State who did get expensive healthcare like that before his execution. smh.
😂
Thank you for publicizing this. Complete insanity.
My grandma, who was put on hospice for no reason other than malnutrition and not even offered a pillow for neck pain, was given a covid vaccine within just a few weeks of being on HOSPICE. What the heck. (This is after she had been very ill after the last round only a few months prior).
@kali542 sadly, only one family member wanted her in hospice, the one who had nearly starved her to death and everybody else tried to get her out of the facility but he would not allow it and she was drugged to death in the facility as soon as she had any kind of pain (in her hip). I'll be reporting it to the State medical board on Monday, because we know that it was basically murder.
@kali542 Use of this (alleged) bioweapon was (is) always sinister, I believe, and in my opinion, it always has been, right from the start.
@kali542 Just wanted to compliment you on your open, honest and very informative input on this matter for us readers. It helps us see how so many of our high standards of healthcare practices of previous innovators are sadly being dismantled by others. Usually other staff, supervisors or management who are unwilling to question imposed illogical changes.
@kali542
They are poisoning my friend to force him ibto hospice.
Experimenting on the homeless.
Bold move!
@mizzouxc3824 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, so the govt has 4 years to clear the streets of all the “riff raff”.
We have tons of Universities in this area, & they are on board with controversial experiments against the less fortunate.
@mizzouxc3824Mk Ultra
Where does a CT scan fall on Maslow’s Hierarchy? 😮😂
Clearly they’re looking for some experiments on their mRNA cancer vaccines
ct-scan is like 70 x-rays in one visit; very efficient way to radiate people.
@@carlosgaspar8447what about the X-ray machine at the airport? Is that something to be concerned about if you fly a few times a year?
@@MK-ih6wp no. ct-scans are like 70 x-rays in one go. maybe an issue with the officials working at the airport but i've not read any data on that subject.
We have a rich history of experimenting on the mentally ill, down-and-out, and desperate people, and it’s often not beneficial to them. Looks like nothing has changed. As always, thanks Dr Prasad for your videos.
This seems like more of a grift, than an experiment.
There are enough resources to feed and shelter the world 🌎
And this is what gets funded..
Why would anyone want to feed and shelter those who contribute nothing? Or even worse, those who actively harm others? Feel free to help anyone you want, but don't expect others to make bad decisions along with you.
@@ohsweetmystery I don’t expect others to make bad decisions. Absolutely not.
Feeding the world with LOVE would be the first start ❤️ the rest will follow 🙏🏼
Once again, you have hit the nail squarely on the head. The only people who benefit from studies like this are the ones who work for the ACS and the researchers they fund. They get a big, fat payday and the homeless are no better off. At best this is stupid, although I'm inclined to see it as calculating and practically criminal.
They're collecting big data for something else.
YES !!!
Tuberculosis rates?
Perhaps someone IS collecting big data for something else but that's not the case. 1. It's not big data by definition (too small a sample); 2. To squeeze big data out of such a project you would have to sample all the homeless people in the US and well beyond, in result breaking a budget of some countries (CT isn't that cheap).
They gave em a pack of cigarettes for participating in the study
And ''Safe'' Heroin.
Please work in the next administration...make better policies
Harvard is bottom on barrel now.
Thanks for the content, Dr. Prasad! 🔥
Motive: Lots of medicaid & medicare funds into drs' and hospital ceos' pockets the more people they can find with health issues.
As the father of a child with autism, I feel the same about AutismSpeaks. It would be nice if they did things that helped, but instead, they mostly do useless research that has no real impact. IMHO
If a cure is found, and all cancer is easily curable. What happens to these cancer societies? They are only doing what they need to do to keep the thing going.
How is cancer easily cured?
@@darcykamin1111 Read what I wrote again. Just speculating
@@darcykamin1111 High quality foods and water.
Yes, totally insane. YOU are right about the garbage!! Don't blame you for being ticked off!
I highly doubt homeless people will be keeping up with any type of follow-up visits that would come from this. There are way more pressing issues (health and in general) that should be addressed first. Your assessment of this study is on point.
The goal is to have a chip for everyone's condition, right? No follow-up visit is needed when you live in a container or warehouse and will have no life except that of a subject.
look at informed consent they used. If they mention any benefit homeless people could possible get then this is an ethics comittee issue.
But think of all the benefits of CT scanner sales to inner cities if they’d shown a benefit. Medical device makers need support too. /s
This is social research being done with money meant for science and medicine.
western medicine has been fraudulent for the last 50 years or so, since the takeover by the AMA (really 100 years, but there was some science done until the 60s)
Good point, and I do think you nailed it.
western medicine is about 90% fraud these days
Bump
The governments great interest is social engineering...
Dr Prasad, I simply love the way you’re speaking out against the oh-so-corrupt medical establishment. The establishment just seems so good, these days, at wasting other people’s money.
If only that was the worst of it. 😢
Check out Dr Suneel Dhand…he’s been calling out the fraud since 2020.
PRASAD for PRESIDENT....or at least surgeon general!! But alas, that makes to much sense!! Uggghhhhhh🤬 (and he's WAY to smart to except if they did offer it to him)
Keep up the good work, doc... in the sea of idocricy you must navigate!!!❤
NIH Director would be sufficient.
I love your take on this! You’re so right. What a farce science has become.
They’re looking for more customers, not helping people
You are THE best… please keep your extra effort going with Substack, RUclips, etc. We look forward to the clarity you bring to every topic you touch. 🙏
My father had a transplant. My mother had cancer so we always joked that they built the hospital because they had insurance and a lot of it was out of pocket. But when she was having back pain a short time after her cancer was apparently cured everyone kept thinking she was trying to get medicine. I was so frustrated because she had cough and cough and cough. So they had this thing where everybody could come in and get a CT my mom signed up. They told us she was dying all over her body.. She went from being upbeat and happy to believing she was dying and a short time later did. There must not be a lot of money in follow up care. When they told her she had bone cancer I wanted to go and talk to the guy who thought she was trying to get medication for pain which was shocking because she was in her 70s and I said what did you think was going to happen? Well then it was here. He’s a bunch of morphine go home and die. She would’ve lived a lot longer, and she had to struggle with all that pain and been ignored. We would have caught it… but they were doing phone appointments and screening her for “drugs”
How many weeks/months of housing could we obtain versus the screening costs? Hmmm.... Someone has a research program, let's metastasize it to a population that really needs something more meaningful (housing!!!). Another example of overuse of medical technology.
My Dr. Annoys the crap out of me EVERY TIME I go in there. Won't do it.
Ahhhh, some good 'ol common sense VINAY SPEAK .. love how you tell it like it is. Stay true to you
I could use your help! I just received mixed vaxxed blood and almost immediately am starting with clouts. I had no choice.They don’t even separate or ask if they were vaxxed. Now it is attacking my brain base in my neck.
Every time I've donated blood since 2022 they have asked if I took a covid vax. But weirdly that is not on the questionnaire. The attendant asks that one desperately from the regular private computer questionnaire.
@@WeighedWilson They told me they take all the blood and mix it and I have no choice. But thanks for your response. If you are unvaccinated they can get more money I bet…maybe it was for that reason.
And what happens when lung cancer is detected in the homeless? Do they automatically get a house to live in? Or tons of money for treatment? Nah, none of that.
I've bought food and coffee for some homeless people I've encountered in my area. In the few minutes I've been in their presence, the smell is so bad I had to flee for my life.
Preventing homelessness in the first place is where it's at.
Figure out how to do that, and you will literally save their life, smoking or not.
So practical, Dr. Prasad. Sorry your voice is unheeded.
Sorry if I was homeless the last thing I want to think about is "great now I got cancer" or even better "Yippie I am cancer free" oh wait I am still homeless. Its a LOSE/LOSE for any homeless person
I've lost my faith in most scientific studies. Many make no sense, like the one Dr. Prasad describes. Money, time, and effort, wasted.
How about psychiatric and drug addiction screening, that could help more.
I will celebrate the day when Vinay Prasad comes all the way over to the side that says the whole jab program was a planned and vicious operation.
Nah, it's just spontaneous opportunistic criminality and stupidity, not an organized conspiracy.
And they are about to come back with more of same. Much more.😢
Only people who love their lives and can afford it care about medical treatment.
Just saying
Are sure they want to do it for lung cancer? Sounds a bit like tuberculosis screening.
TB can be diagnosed through a simple blood titer test and is hundreds of dollars cheaper than a CT scan, and depending on where a person lives, it could even be thousands of dollars cheaper.
Aha..you may be onto something.
I think labwork and a chest xray are standard for TB screening. A CT scan to rule out TB seems like overkill
@@trina7274 true, but the blood titer test requires a poke fallowed by another poke after 72 hours. Try getting a homeless person to show up for an appointment once, let alone twice.
@@eddieb82100 That's true, but it will also show up on a ct scan AND they can kill two birds with one stone...they don't care about saving money...they must spend it b/c it's earmarked, and they must justify that for which it is spent.. this allows them to spend a LOT of money for what seems on the surface to be a humanitarian endeavor and they get credit. It's all about politics and virtue signaling.
The waste and stupidity is endless.
Yes, careers are made from useless degrees and absolutely useless research
Who benefits financially for this study?.... That’s the real thing we should be concerned with and whom they’re connected to. It’s seldom about studying any group of individuals but enriching a select few.
an overwhelming majority of modern medical practice is lost in all cause mortality...the more long-term or chronic the care, the worse. but what you didn't mention that's more relevant is the quality of remaining life, which in most cases is inversely correlated to modern medicine
you know what extends life and quality of life? moderation in: faith, fresh air, prayer/meditation, thermohydrotherapy, sunlight, interval exercise, rest, resistance work, sleep, social exercise, clean plant foods and water --> you know, the high tech stuff
Wanna bet you will find a link between either the researchers or the managers of the ACS, and the companies providing the CT service?
I agree, thanks for the critique. They don't even acknowledge environmental toxicity as a cause of cancer!
I'm surprised they could even find a homeless person willing to stop chain smoking long enough to have a CT scan! 😅
OMG, I love it ."Cancer Screening turns healthy people into patients" I could not agree more. How about giving these people a meal instead of a screening. Quality of life is as important as the Quantity of it.
God bless you for saying it. Trying to understand the anatomy of the failed scientific community… my gut says it has to do with “ladder climbers” overpowering scientifically talented individuals. The system is not optimized for the right thing.
Lets give them three types of glass pipes, smoking straws, tinfoil and brillo to smoke with and incentives like food and gift cards to get jab after jab (folks use different names each time to get that gift card).
At the TLC (supervised drug consumption site in SF) they wanted to teach the homeless how to garden. I said, they dont have any land, this is a slap in the face.
I worked there, very briefly. For Health Right 360 and they are liars
They lied to the community about illegal drug at the facility. As did Mayor Breed and the SFDPH
It’s SF. The corruption armpit.
Dear Lord! Job training! Drug addiction treatment! Housing! We've lost our minds!
Greed. If there's one thing that the pandemic taught me, it's that someone somewhere is profiting.
$cience.
Do they pay these homeless people?
It's not intuitive to most people, hiw early detection can cause more harm for what was a benign growth.
However, i can't help but wonder what's up if it was a fruitful early detection that saves or extend your life?
I think I'd take a scan if I could, then I'd get a second opinion and find a nice place to get the biopsy done.
I know they say they have gotten very good success rates with some types but they also said the Civic vaccine was safe and effective.
CT scans might even be healthful because of radiation hormesis if you don't get too many. Radiation hormesis isn't studied well but seeing how healthy Danny Elfman is at his age despite being addicted to X rays and having hobbies such as doing radiation experiments when he was a kid, I might be a believer now.
Another reason why Harvard is looking for a donation i won't
They came up with this invitation after growing bored with playing two hours of I Spy With My Little Eye.
I agree with you 💯!!!
If a person misuses a drug (in someone’s opinion) that’s called “substance abuse.” But when someone habitually drives too fast it’s not called “car abuse.” When someone overeats it’s not called “food abuse.” I suggest the doctor look more carefully at the quackery of drug prohibition.
Thanks, Dr.
How did this pass and ethics board.
It's ALL about money - to line the pockets of shareholders and every other entity or person profiting off of such sociopathic end-stage capitalistic behavior. Pathetic. Absolutely NO altruism here.
It is globalist, communist behavior, at the top, I believe.
And no altruism is right. Pure evil.
Wait, sorry for being out of subject. Did you buy a U87 AI to do podcasts?
Please don't get me wrong, your videos sound good on my phone and cheap PC speakers.
But it seems like a big waste of money because an SM7b, RE20 or any dynamic microphone like the Se dynacaster would have don't the same job in an untreated room.
3:19 “Cancer screening turns healthy people into patients, and has the rare adverse event of saving some lives.”
NAILED IT, VP!
Goal...spend as much of your dollars as possible. Garbage and public health says NOTHING
I think it’s safe to say that “public health” actually means…something else. 😢
"Hey,...excuse me, homeless person. I know you need a clean, dry place to live, a shower, clean cloths, good food and possibly help with an addiction issue but would you take a CT scan for lung cancer instead?"
Now this is what you call global warming
Maybe they're doing it just to collect and hoard CT scan data? I got a CT scan last year and I insisted on taking the data home on a disk and I tried to 3D print my brain and skull but my school's 3D printers are shitty
Lipid management?
I mean, at least they aren’t giving black men syphilis to see what happens?
Although I’d be absolutely unsurprised to find out that they DID do something untoward to these people unbeknownst to them. Who knows what, but pulling back the covers to see who makes money and how should tell you all you need to know.
Follow the money. Also looking back at the medical care and medicine 40 years ago, the medical field should be so much further advanced than it is today. Back then it should have been unimageable the strides we should have reached by now, but sadly we have not.
Don't worry Doc, they are just drumming up business and the people will fall for it.
Vinay, from Switzerland, you have my total support and solidarity. You speak the truth and common sense. Not just that, you truly are concerned with ethics and protection of patients and individuals. Unfortunately in this case it is apparent that someone wants to make money out of the homeless… It’s heartbreaking. 💔 America has been irredeemably corrupted by special interests and i don’t see how the few honest citizens who survived are going to turn that around- i don’t think it’s possible.
They seem to be destroying the entire western world, especially the US.
I appreciate your videos as they are very useful. I have been T1D for 43 years and am 67 and manage my health very well with supplements and a CGM to the point that I only need 10u TDD to manage. I have known for decades that the drug industry has been controlling medicine to make more money for their shareholders and not really for the benefit of the health of people. I really appreciate the use of RUclips and resent the recent AI controls they put on it to protect the interests of the drug companies that was also to the detriment of humanity.
I can't remember the name of a high ranking leader if a journal who also said that research was done in a way to meet the ends of the researchers and was not honest. She could only say that as she was retired, but she had obviously seen it while fulfilling her role. So it seems the industry is led in a way that benefits the minority at the expense of the majority.
Vanay, you need to build an app or website we can use before making donations. Tell us if the research will be bullshit or actually useful.
Did they try offering a free meal with the scan?
You can keep the disk with the data on it afterwards but they probably don't have a computer or a safe place to put it.
Get a free lung scan & a free pack of cigarettes. Complimentary of American tax payers…
Isn't this population considered a vulnerable population?
VP you’re hitting over the target …big brother is watching
Brain CT is associated with a 2% risk of brain cancer. wonder what it does to thise fast dividing lung cells.
I know what I do before I pay my bills: get a ct screening for lung cancer.
A new varient called the CT Corona-24
Its infuriating. Can we please care about people more???
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How many billions have they burned through in all these years?
More people get a scan when prompted than when not. Well, they got us on that one, didn't they?
How do you heal the body and the mind?
One thing I wonder given your level of influence and where you work why they don’t listen more to a person like you cuz esp during the plandemic( not to start a debate sorry that’s just how I see it) and since now we see a number of decisions seem to be more political then science driven and you seem to use more common sense I don’t get it
Look at the incentives for the "they" you refer to. Some are ideologically blinded, others are just afraid of being canceled because they have families to feed.
@@teresabenson3385 good point, I know when I bring up politics with people I’ve worked with they esp being libretarian heavily leaning people have often said that there are not many of me in the bay sadly but also that I’m pretty bold to bring it up at work at times
At least it wasn't funded by taxpayer dollars!
Common sense should be rephrased to rare sense in this day and age.
The QAnon MD Shaman strikes again.
You speak as if the health care system is there to make us better...
When you're a hammer everything is a nail.
Off topic. Get a pop filter for your mic, please.
Federal govt and agencies funding nonsense.
A voice of reason, thank you!
A new varient called the CT Corona-24
CT for vaccine side effetcs would be a great idea... Normalle follow up is done for years and years, during C there has not been done ONE check for side effects. If people dont report them, nobody would know anything. How sick is this
@@PM-wt3yeVery sick, and I’ve come to learn that much of the “long term follow up” that many assume actually happens, doesn’t. 💔
They just have money to waste.
Pop filter please?
So much waste is a SIN !!!
The Ivory Tower lives!