Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a...
by astura on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:30AM
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MRIs on healthy, asymptomatic individuals are not "safe," they cause harm due to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. I know TFA was a long read but it explains it, CTRL-F "turtle" to get to the part about tumors specifically. Here's a similar explanation: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...
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Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a...
by jartelt on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:57AM
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Agreed - I was simply stating that the act of getting an MRI does not cause harm, whereas some other tests (CT scans, X-rays, etc.) actually cause harm during the course of the test. I certainly would not recommend healthy people to get MRIs. But if something is really messed up in your body, an MRI is one of the safer imaging techniques (albeit expensive and not always the best for the job).