A NEJM study estimates that 2 percent of all cancers in the next 20 to 30 years may be attributable to CT scans.
The price of overtesting and defensive medicine has just gone up.
More testing does not always equate to better medicine.
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I cant wait to be sued in 20 years by some patient who I ordered a CT scan on for diverticulitis, claiming I gave them cancer.
Medicine sucks.
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