Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti...
by groby_b on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:57PM
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> they don't require a biopsy; you're still free to not get the biopsy after the mri
Have you ever talked through a scan with an oncologist? Or are you just reasoning in the abstract because you feel you can first-principle it?
Also, seriously, you want to turn this into a communism debate? fwiw, capitalism has already decided. The vast majority of resources goes to anything but full-body scans, because actual experts made the call what's more effective. Repeatedly. On many cases.
But you are right, you are of course free to make bad decisions with your money, and there will always be somebody happy to separate fools from their money. Capitalism does work.
Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti...
by kragen on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:24PM
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> Have you ever talked through a scan with an oncologist?
yes, earlier this year
also, fuck you
people like you are why i always regret succumbing to the temptation to participate here
they don't require a biopsy; you're still free to not get the biopsy after the mri
sometimes getting the biopsy is actually worse for you, on average, than the small chance that you'll have a very rare disease. probably in those cases you shouldn't get the biopsy, which means the mri didn't actually help you, but it didn't hurt you much either; you're US$650 poorer and worried, that's all
in other cases getting the biopsy is better for you, in which case the mri did help you
> Is that the best possible way to spend [scarce] resources?
fortunately, we have private property, so we already have a system for allocating scarce resources: their owner decides how to spend them. this turns out to work much better than the alternatives that have been tried, which routinely result in famines and genocides. so we don't need to come to a global community-wide consensus on that question; instead we can consider each case as it comes up