I'm a doctor. Here's why I wouldn't get a full-body MRI scan

bookofjoe

https://wapo.st/4reItFt

0fr

https://archive.ph/Cofxc

FireBeyond

I feel like imaging and physicians really amped up on pushing this over the last decade or two. Most of the big DI companies (GE, Philips, Siemens) had very friendly financing targeted heavily at physicians. They had "matching" services ("Find other providers in your area who'd also like to own a DI facility"). They'd help with consultants to facilitate getting your Certificate of Need (i.e. how not to piss off the other facilities in your area who get to say whether or not they'd reduce their investment in serving the area if you open up). And the not unsurprising conclusion of all this? Physicians who own a DI facility or stake in one (and realize this doesn't have to be just radiologists, but any physician) refer their patients to imaging at rates far above expectations. But now, line must go up, so we're doing this "scan your whole body and let's see what we can do to give you a touch-up", and ever-so-helpfully we have a whole network of providers lined up for referrals (that's if we don't just handle things in-house). I will be similarly unsurprised if many of the outcomes from this raft of scanning are procedures that are medically unnecessary.