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I don't do yearly physicals in my practice. i follow patients regularly but the yearly physical may help me bring somebody back in i haven't seen all year. fy haven't seen someone and they're suffering from regular medical health problems, i want to help. if i see them regularly, they don't need the yearly physical. a diabetic i see every three or four months, check their blood pressure but what about vaccines, cholesterol testing, blood pressure testing, screening tests for smokers. you have to see a patient at least once a year. i can spread it out over the year. >> i look at it like taking ...

It and what we know is and i'm glad ian thompson made the comment about this, we know as urologists, psa reduced the rate of death over the last two decades and without alternative screening tests, and psa is the only test we have for prostate cancer putting our head in the sand and saying no screening is absolutely irresponsible and the other thing is, prostate cancer is known that's see yas the sil there are no symptoms and my recommendation to a lot of people is, get tested. that information is important and, it may give you the diagnosis of prostate cancer, but, just because you are being ...

Department in ours and most urban emergency departments, we divided it to urgent care centers and emergency departments, and we can handle both without competing with each other. but clearly there are more cost effective ways of delivering nonemergent care. access as alluded to, at fordable care act will drive that in that there will be more people who have insurance, have access will want screening tests, all which is go ahead down the road it will prevent more serious illnesses and costly medical expenses, but nothing to cover that right now no provisions in the affordable care act to grow m...

Surprisingly, nowhere to be found. nowhere. here with us now, dr. nancy snyderman. you stop it mike barnicle. >> don't go there. >> we are going there. >> in washington, former white house adviser and chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy at the school of medicine, dr. emanuel. good to have you on the show this morning, zeke. >> this news about prostate screening being not such a good thing. >> this is a controversy that is going to make the breast cancer guidelines we talked about two years ago like a blip. basically, the news is this. the u.s. preventive task force, the...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. it is wednesday, october 19th. welcome to "american morning." craziest story ever. this thing you just said about wild animals on the prowl. >> just spoke to an affiliate reporter in zanesville, ohio. there are some 24 animal, things like tigers, cheetahs, cougars, giraffe, on the loose right now in ohio. they've closed schools. they have highway signs saying, if you see wild animal, please, stay in your car and call 911. they found the owner of this wild animal preserve dead, a hole in the fengs ace and cages open. >> unbelievabl...