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A friend has several friends (in their 30s) find a brain tumor when doctors were looking for something else and has a layman's theory that they are way more prevalent than we think and we don't know about them bc there's no basic scanning?
This popped into my head bc 2 of my not Korean friends have told me they want to go to Korea as soon as this is over. And I mentioned getting faces lasered and a full-body scan so was checking prices.
10 years ago my parents got full-body scans in Korea on a visit bc it was so cheap, why not, and it was my dad's med school, etc. They found a couple things that didn't show up here. (Everyone is fine, nipped in the bud).
So for less than $1500 USD you get basically a full year+ (inc mammograms for women, colonoscopy, full body PET scan, and genetic screening. In one day. https://medicalpackage.visitmedicalkorea.com/eng/appointments/detail.do?vcrId=325
My dad: I think they also give you lunch!
Anyway, was researching this for a friend, thought the numbers sounded too low, but nope, there it is. People talk about medical tourism being cheaper and often shadier, but this is state of the art. And efficient. It's all possible, we just...don't do it here.
And they can test blood flow, before cancer or another blockage alters the structure of organs, I'm now being told. i.e. detect cancer and heart disease earlier.
I'm waiving liability on all of my tweets this a.m. (and life). Obviously, none of this is medical or financial advice. I'm just paraphrasing my texts real-time here.
