On: The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag

[tptacek]

The point is that they're mathematically guaranteed to be, overwhelmingly, false readings.

[cyberax → tptacek]

And so what?

That's also exactly the case with most safety systems.

[tptacek → cyberax]

Most safety systems pose very little risk of making random incisions into your peritoneum.

[cyberax → tptacek]

Well, here's your problem. Don't make random incisions into your peritoneum.

If you have an abnormal result on the MRI, just wait for some time to check if it's really abnormal.