General health checks are not beneficial for general adult population
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General health checks don't work.
We check our cars regularly, so why shouldn’t we also check our bodies so that we can find and treat abnormalities before they cause too much harm? It seems so easy, but the human body is not a car, and, in contrast to a car, it has self healing properties. Actually, the first thing we know about screening is that it will cause harm in some people. This is why we need randomised trials to find ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1897-9483
DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15031