> healthy people don't go in testing for the presense of a rare disease.
Well that’s precisely the point. There’s frequently the idea raised among lay people that it would be beneficial to test or screen for all kinds of rare or even just uncommon diseases that have high mortality in the general populace. This is the counter argument.
Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu...
by giantg2 on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:06PM
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And many tests, likely the more invasive ones used to confirm these initial tests, carry risks. Even something as "routine" as a colonoscopy carries risks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
> healthy people don't go in testing for the presense of a rare disease.
Well that’s precisely the point. There’s frequently the idea raised among lay people that it would be beneficial to test or screen for all kinds of rare or even just uncommon diseases that have high mortality in the general populace. This is the counter argument.