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Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by margalabargala on Saturday June 14, 2025 @11:26AM (#44276945)
> Sending 1,000 people to CT to identify 5 tumors will cause 50 other complications.

This is something frequently missing from discussions like this.

Something that has a fairly small per-patient risk like a CT scan, causes far more pain than reduced missed diagnoses would solve if applied across the whole population.

Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by Spooky23 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @11:32AM (#44276977)
Not only that, but you have red herrings. Going down the rabbit hole chasing random anomalies doesn’t solve the patients problem either!