It’s touted as the 15-second heart scan that saves lives. Of course, cost isn’t mentioned. You bet that once it’s available, it will be a routine cya ER test. And we wonder why health costs are out of control.
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And we’ll still have to admit the 25 year olds with chest pain due to anxiety, even if their “mdct” is negative, as long as the lawyers can find some “hired gun” to say “I wouldn’t have missed that MI” in the 1/100,000 anxious 25 year olds that have negative MDCT’s but real cardiac disease.
There is no way a negative test would lead to surefire discharge in this day and age. Not when someone with a negative cardiac cath in the last weeks/months gets routinely readmitted for atypical chest pain. I see that constantly. CYA.
“) It won’t be my problem when they get a radiation induced cancer in 15 years. I will be retired’
You can say this, but I’m sure some of the cash-thirsty sodomites are trying to think up a way to sue us on this one too. They’d buttfuck their own mothers if they knew they could win a 30% contingency fee for it.
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