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Saturday, July 25, 2009

My reading material while waiting in my doctor's office ... 

.. for my cancer screening: A New York Times page one story about the ineffectiveness of cancer screenings, and the wasteful costs they lard into our health care system.

But fortunately, it was not so for me! As mine resulted in no fewer than 14 pre-cancerous keratoses being frozen off my skin, two more sliced off with a blade, and two days of laser treatment scheduled in September for what's left. (Such is the result later in life for those of us with a Scottish genetic heritage who during our 20s spent a good part of our recreational time scuba diving in the Caribbean).

I guess that was fortunate...