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Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by Grazester »

salgernon wrote: post #110
CatDevURandom wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My spouse -- an md -- cringed a bit when I read your post. And not because it's not well meaning, or important, but because without qualifying what "comprehensive health check" means, that check could very well do you more harm than good. So, yes. Please find a good primary care physician you trust and visit on an annual basis. Make sure you update that phsyician with what's going on in your life. That includes any f…

I went to the urgent care when I had what I thought was hemmoroids - the urgen care doctor hadn't seen anything quick like what she saw and sent me for a colonoscopy. Normally "they" recommend starting periodic colonoscopies at 50. When the procedure was finished, I was told they would analyze the result, but I had a cancerous tumor and they sent me for a CT scan which confirmed stage iv colon cancer with liver metas…

Can I ask your age? I am in my early 30's and thinking of getting a colonoscopy, not necessarily without merit but potentially for the reason you did.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by intrasight »

ams6110 wrote: post #98
brookside wrote: post #94

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Hacker news is a community of (from what I've seen) strong critical thinkers, with a poster in a thread often having a specific background in the field being discussed. Doctors aren't mythical beings, and discourse here about what medical tests are 'worth it' seems both appropriate and really interesting.

Oh come on... outside of a few notable individuals, nobody really knows who anybody here is, or what their credentials are to talk about anything. Law and Medicine are two of the things most likely to precipitate a lot of online commentary by people who don't have the first clue of what they're talking about.

Technology being a third thing

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by danso »

Kiro wrote: post #121
andyfleming wrote: post #108

Does hacker news still do the black bar to honor people in the community who have passed away?

This questions often pops up whenever there's a thread about someone passing away on the front page. I think it's problematic since it will be up to the admins to decide whether a person was "important" enough to have a black bar. A very hard task where each consideration will be controversial. Therefore I don't think they should do it all.

They've done it for people particularly important to the community...Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz (I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845).

I think it's a difficult task in that you can't include everyone...but I think it'd be fine if the admins did it by personal consensus...I imagine who they think would be noteworthy would be in line with what most users think.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by mikeyouse »

imjk wrote: post #46
shabda wrote: post #16

I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…

He's not the most popular guys around here, but Mark Cuban shares a similar sentiment about quarterly blood tests: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cubans-on-blood-tests-an...

He got a ton of flack for that, mostly from doctors and epidemiologists;

http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/mark-cuban-is-wrong...

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by at-fates-hands »

bau5 wrote: post #117
jimjam7382 wrote: post #114

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Hard to believe this was just death by "natural causes." It's dangerous to speculate, yes, but I think we can all safely assume that he had access to the best of the best in terms of healthcare. To die suddenly at his age with no warning signs at all is very strange.

Even if you can afford it, you've got to ask for it, if you're in the tech field. A professional basketball player, and probably also a coach, is going to have their physical health watched over, whether they take the initiative or not. Wealthy people in many other fields are free to go to the doctor as rarely or as often as they want. That said I think his wife probably made sure he got good access to healthcare, if…

>>> Even if you can afford it, you've got to ask for it.

This. A thousand times.

So many people in the valley just lose track of time, or they put their health on the back burner for just one more month, or miss that yearly physical, and then suddenly it catches up with them.

Saying he was a proponent of work life balance does not mean his job was a walk in the park either. You're in one of the most competitive markets, with a successful startup. I can easily see why executives at his lever would start to cut corners on their health.

It's too bad really. He sounds like one of the guys you would really root for to be successful. At the very least, I'm glad he was able to achieve some of his dreams - something a large portion of the population never get a chance at.

If anything it should remind everybody. Take a break, call your family and tell them you love them, hug your kids and tell them you love them. You never know man, you just never know when your time is going to be up.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by downandout »

It's so sad when people die suddenly. SurveyMonkey itself hasn't even updated their team page [1]. I wonder what happened? Heart attack? I feel for Sheryl Sandberg...she seems like an exceptionally decent and grounded person, which in my experience is rare among obscenely wealthy people.

[1] https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/aboutus/management/

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by salgernon »

Grazester wrote: post #131
salgernon wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to the urgent care when I had what I thought was hemmoroids - the urgen care doctor hadn't seen anything quick like what she saw and sent me for a colonoscopy. Normally "they" recommend starting periodic colonoscopies at 50. When the procedure was finished, I was told they would analyze the result, but I had a cancerous tumor and they sent me for a CT scan which confirmed stage iv colon cancer with liver metas…

Can I ask your age? I am in my early 30's and thinking of getting a colonoscopy, not necessarily without merit but potentially for the reason you did.

I'm 44. They said the tumor may have been detectable 10 years ago. There is no history of colon cancer in my family, although my father had prostate cancer treated in his fifties. (He's 89 now and still drives have myself to his weekly poker game. Does pretty well at it too, from what I hear.)

Colon cancer can be effectively treated when Caught in it's early stages. During my (first) colonoscopy they found another tumor that got removed in the first of several surgeries, and it had clear margins and required to further treatment.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by [deleted] »

Grazester wrote: post #131
salgernon wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to the urgent care when I had what I thought was hemmoroids - the urgen care doctor hadn't seen anything quick like what she saw and sent me for a colonoscopy. Normally "they" recommend starting periodic colonoscopies at 50. When the procedure was finished, I was told they would analyze the result, but I had a cancerous tumor and they sent me for a CT scan which confirmed stage iv colon cancer with liver metas…

Can I ask your age? I am in my early 30's and thinking of getting a colonoscopy, not necessarily without merit but potentially for the reason you did.

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