MetropolitanMD and LifeLine Screening Present a Preventive Medicine Screening for Valentine's Day

Several months ago I blogged about a small study that indicated in one dermatology practice 2/3 of malignant melanoma cases were detected on routine preventive screening and the patients did not come in complaining about the lesion. 1/3 of patients with malignant melanoma succumb to the disease. We do not seem to be a nation that cares about preventive medicine. As a cancer survivor this saddens me. There is no national will to reduce the severity of disease. Insurance programs are meager at best as companies scale back their offerings. Politicians give lip service to medical care while rationalizing by all sorts of means to maintain the status quo, even if they have to disguise it under a different name.
Life Line Screening is a company that provides preventive ultrasound screening for carotid artery disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, peripheral arterial disease, and osteoporosis with a simple procedure. Many physicians support this work as it is preventive and low cost. Their package price is $129.00.
On Thursday, Feb 14 (is this a great Valentine's gift or what?) Dr. Rachel and I will join Life Line Screening at St. Peter Community Church, 2700 Willow Road, in Northbrook for a day of screening. Dr. Rachel and I will be doing skin exams to look for malignant or pre-malignant lesions at no cost and Life Line Screening will provide a valuable internal screen for their package price. You can check them out at www.lifelinescreening.com . You can spare yourself and your loved ones some grief if you will attend. I hope to see you there.