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Remember when a celebrity starring in a PSA was usually a condition of their probation for a D.U.I. or drug charge?
A thing of the past. Now it's cool for actors to tell us what we should be doing. Unfortunately, all the cool causes -- literacy, volunteering, heart health -- have been done to death.
Not that that's going to stop CBS. Neither is the fact that The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently issued new recommendations stating that annual pap smears are no longer a necessary part of most women's health regime.
Check out actor Josh Pais (who is not on the cast of a CBS show), telling us how when you're stuck for a gift for the woman in your life, a visit to the gyno is the way to go. After all, "Just a schmear could save her life."
All of this is true. Nothing does say Happy Hanukkah like a Pap smear. Know what? Nothing says Merry Christmas like a melanoma screening either.
Of course, not to leave anyone out, actor Chris Beetem (also not on a CBS show) offers a Pap Smear PSA for the Christians out there.
I don't know what kind of doctors everyone else goes to, but mine doesn't accept gift certificates. Maybe with the new national health care plan ... .
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A thing of the past. Now it's cool for actors to tell us what we should be doing. Unfortunately, all the cool causes -- literacy, volunteering, heart health -- have been done to death.
Not that that's going to stop CBS. Neither is the fact that The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently issued new recommendations stating that annual pap smears are no longer a necessary part of most women's health regime.
Check out actor Josh Pais (who is not on the cast of a CBS show), telling us how when you're stuck for a gift for the woman in your life, a visit to the gyno is the way to go. After all, "Just a schmear could save her life."
All of this is true. Nothing does say Happy Hanukkah like a Pap smear. Know what? Nothing says Merry Christmas like a melanoma screening either.
Of course, not to leave anyone out, actor Chris Beetem (also not on a CBS show) offers a Pap Smear PSA for the Christians out there.
I don't know what kind of doctors everyone else goes to, but mine doesn't accept gift certificates. Maybe with the new national health care plan ... .
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Wow, those 10 second spots are more entertaining than NCIS. I sense a new series coming on...
Re: the statement "Neither is the fact that The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently issued new recommendations stating that annual pap smears are no longer a necessary part of most women's health regime" - if you do any research you will find that the new recommendation was for women who had hysterectomy's - the test was being done to check for cancer in an organ that the women no longer had. Like testing for penis cancer if you no longer have a penis! The pap smears are still a very important part of women's health - please be accurate in your reporting!!!
I give CBS a lot of credit for going where no one has gone before and putting themselves on the line for women's health. Pap smears and ovarian...uterine cancer...need not hide in the shadows anyore. Bravo CBS!
In fairness, is getting a 50 inch tv the true meaning of the holidays?
I wonder how many takes did they have to do until they could get through without laughing?
Shirley, the new guidelines say that women over 30 can wait three years between Pap smears once they've had three consecutive clean tests and that after 65 women can stop having them entirely if they've gone 10 years with no abnormalities. So this post is accurate in saying that the experts now say "annual pap smears are no longer a necessary part of most women's health regime" since year Pap smears for all women is no longer recommended. Oh, and if you look at the CBS Cares site they also say that they questioned if these PSAs even needed to still be done once the new guidelines came out.
I thought this was funny until I started reading these comments. Kind of scary that some women don't even know what a Pap smear screens for. It's only for pre-cancerous and cancerous cervical conditions. Not ovarian cancer. Not uterine cancer. Since the introduction of the HPV vaccine (HPV be the largest cause of cervical cancer), the need for Pap smears isn't as great as it once was.
The HPV vaccine has risks of its own and are too late for women over a certain age. So Pap smears remain as important as ever under the ACOG new guidelines. Women will die if they do not get them. So the CBS ads help underscore their importance at a time of confusion to many women. I join those thanking CBS for stepping forward in such a bold way.
One problem with these ads that no one's mentioned thus far is that it's unlikely that either of those two celebrities has ever had a pap smear. It's kind of like having a woman ask men to have their member checked for cancer; sure they can make the recommendation but the ad might be more effective coming from someone who's actually done what they're recommending.
i wish CBS would STFU about these ads.