To everyone who believes that equates more CT scans to better medicine, consider one of the downsides:
They were concerned that patients coming through the emergency room could end up having unnecessary CT (“cat”) scans without anyone informing them of the risks from the doses of radiation they were getting.
They calculated that a CT scan of the abdomen gives the body a radiation dose that is the equivalent of between 100 and 250 chest X-rays.
But they found that only seven percent of the patients said they had been told this.
Defensive medicine has its costs, but lawyers continue to believe that the more tests, the better.
