Preventive Care in a Comfortable Environment
Prevention Or Reaction?
Common in today’s healthcare mindset, patients often choose to forego preventive care. Usually, this is because of time, money, or just a general uneasiness about visiting hospitals and doctors. Instead, patients typically wait to see a doctor until they start noticing something that is wrong with them. However, even then, denial plays a heavy role in a normal person’s life. At least until the problems become too noticeable to be ignored any further. When that occurs, they finally receive the check-up and are often told that they have a terminal illness. It could be cancer or anything else equally devastating.
Because, especially in terms of cancer, so much of the battle can be won when the disease is still early, prevention is far more important than reaction. For those who believe that going to the hospital to have regular check-ups is a waste of resources and time, … Read more