Dr. Ezekiel (Zeke) Emanuel

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The David Pakman Show · The firings will continue until the morale improves · 27 Jan 2026 podcast

Mammograms for women, really important to begin 40, 45, the exact cutoff is under debate.

colonoscopies, as you point out, and that's becoming more important for younger people because of the rise, probably because of changes in the microbiome, but we're not sure why.

There's lung cancer screening for former smokers, which is important.

There's cervical cancer screening and getting the HPV vaccine, which is right.

And the one that I have the most trouble with and why I say most of the vaccine recommendations is the prostate specific antigen for man PSA testing.

And I go through in the book a detailed reason why I'm against it.

I point out why others like the United States Preventive Services Task Force and other groups are for it.

The main data are that it is true that the PSA test will catch and decrease your chance of dying of prostate cancer.

What is also true is that the PSA will not change your overall mortality.

So, yes, you will less likely to die of prostate cancer, but not less likely to die a minute later.

And the reason is that most prostate cancer is in older men who have competing comorbidities.

whether it's from heart disease, maybe potentially some other cancer or strokes or what have you.

And so I'm not one of those people who cares what the sentence on my death certificate says that I died of.

If the test isn't going to improve my longevity, it's not actually that good a test, in my opinion.

Plus,

PSA often gets you false positives, lots of false positives.

So you get a lot of people who get a positive PSA, have to go through testing, maybe even have their prostate removed.

And let me just assure people, there is no medical test ever

create it that doesn't have complications.

And so the complications inevitably arise, whether it's impotence or incontinence or other problems.

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