Comment by jdthedisciple
7 days ago
> One study in 2020 found that 95% of asymptomatic patients had some type of "abnormal" finding
Call me naïve but why don't we just update our definition of "(ab)normal" then?
7 days ago
> One study in 2020 found that 95% of asymptomatic patients had some type of "abnormal" finding
Call me naïve but why don't we just update our definition of "(ab)normal" then?
People often contain features in their body that look abnormal on an MRI but might not actually be issues. The issue is that an MRI doesn’t give enough information to know otherwise. This is why they are typically not used in a routine exam by mainstream medicine.
It’s like running ‘ls -la’ on a directory to determine if there are any issues with a piece of software. It could show things that are really bad. It could show things that look weird. But it won’t conclusively debug the code.