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Public release date: 09 July 2010
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Men less likely than women to go to the doctor
If you're young and healthy, you probably don't need to see a doctor for testing. However, just as cars need regular
checkups
as the mileage ramps up, so do men as they earn on the years.
The problem is men prefer to keep their heads in the sand about possible medical complications. According to a U.S.
study, men shy away from medical checkups. Many men think you're not sick till your MD says so, so they steer clear
of checkups. It's a finding local general practitioners don't dispute.
A report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reveals just 57 per cent of men, compared to 74 per cent
of women, had had a routine medical checkups within the past 12 months.
Both doctors find men start showing up - reluctantly - in their 50s for
prostate cancer testing. They often claim
it wasn't their idea to book an appointment. A lot of men say, 'I'm here because my wife wanted me to come.'
The study leader said he has even heard of men seeing a doctor as a "gift" to their wives. Why women outnumber men
comes down to their familiarity with routine testing and men's general aversion to doctors' offices.
Women are used to coming for such tests as pap smears and mammograms. For men, routine testing is "quite foreign.
Yet regular testing for prostate cancer, diabetes and colon cancer gives their doctors a baseline to note any changes.
It is a fact that pap smears and mammograms are automatically covered by female provincial health plans, while
men might have to pay for the prostate-specific antigen test, which, is not automatically covered.
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