Comment by cyberax

> I don’t see staffing mentioned? A good tech will improve throughout, and you need more than one. A good operation will have several per scanner. They reduce the ever present danger and keep the operation running smoothly. I’m biased, I’m a tech.

That's why I put the cost of the scan at $1k, to make room for a profit margin and the staffing cost (which will be more than equipment).

Liability is an issue, but not an insurmountable one. If you get poor-quality images, you can just retake them. So biasing radiologists towards that can be a workable solution. There is also a lawsuit in the US going on against one of the full-body scan companies that missed a cancer, so we'll see how it turns out.

> The radiologist needs to be onsite. We give drugs. They inject things, they biopsy, they are doing stuff.

For clinical MRI. Not the diagnostic screening ones, they are done without any contrast.

> There are a lot of efficiencies that can be made, and radiology needs all the help it can get, but it isn’t a ludicrously inefficient or stuck in the past.

Radiology is fine, the AI will help them to do quick screening and point out possible pathologies.