Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
by n8henrie on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:48AM
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But you're not having cancer checked out, you're having a "spot" or a "nodule" or something checked out.
And the person that's making the recommendation on whether or not to check it out may get sued for $10M if they tell you it's probably nothing and they're wrong, but have no harm come to them if they tell you it's worth having some other doctor do a biopsy.
And they might make an extra couple hundred bucks every time you have to come back and see them to follow up on this spot.
And the radiologist interpreting the MRIs... the same perverse incentives regarding how they interpret a "spot."
And the person that's making the recommendation on whether or not to check it out may get sued for $10M if they tell you it's probably nothing and they're wrong, but have no harm come to them if they tell you it's worth having some other doctor do a biopsy.
And they might make an extra couple hundred bucks every time you have to come back and see them to follow up on this spot.
And the radiologist interpreting the MRIs... the same perverse incentives regarding how they interpret a "spot."