@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer I am honestly appalled by your behaviour here. You are a medic and a public communicator, and you seem unable to use basic and commonly-understood words when discussing concepts like population health screens.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer The WHO make it clear that an ethical population screen uses clear language that will maximise capture of the target demographic. Who are the target demographic for prostate screens?
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer To define the population demographic for prostate screening as ‘those with prostates’ lacks any explanatory value. It’s a linguistic dead end. Replace ‘prostate’ with a less well-known structure, and then consider how effective a screening campaign will be….
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer Or consider the premise of identifying an at risk group defined as being as ‘those at risk’. You’re not identifying any group, you’re just repeating yourself.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer You are privileged to know what a prostate is, as am I. I know that I am incredibly unlikely to need prostate screening, while my husband will. We know that because we’ve been educated about such things.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer Remember that education? What if a teacher had taught us that the people who have prostates are the people who have prostates.
You want the teachers to say the words ‘male’ and ‘boy/man’ while you keep your social media hands clean.
And fail to advocate effectively for men.
You want the teachers to say the words ‘male’ and ‘boy/man’ while you keep your social media hands clean.
And fail to advocate effectively for men.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer What specifically about my GP registration will flag me for a prostate exam/screen? What’s the relevant data field? Nobody has ever looked to check if I have one.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer My husband is a man. He is male. He was born with a male reproductive system. And that data field - sex: male - is how his GP knows to get him in for prostate screening.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer You know this, yet you are too worried to say it. And in refusing to say it, even laughably pretending you don’t understand the questions being asked of you, you are failing to do your job.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer So I’ll do it for you.
Attention men, males, those with male reproductive systems:
You should consider prostate screening when the time comes, because it is men, males, those with a male reproductive systems that have prostates.
Attention men, males, those with male reproductive systems:
You should consider prostate screening when the time comes, because it is men, males, those with a male reproductive systems that have prostates.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer Attention women, females, those with female reproductive systems:
You will not need prostate screening. But please consider taking up cervix screening services when offered.
You will not need prostate screening. But please consider taking up cervix screening services when offered.
@xandvt @MumpGorithm @refined_devon @BBCMorningLive @BBCiPlayer Please see here for guidelines from the WHO about how to run an effective screening service, in this example for cervical screening.
https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1289253876907089920
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