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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (22535)11/15/2011 2:28:08 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Sorry, but that simple example supports that imaging can be useful prior to surgery. There's no way round that.

Study 1: "M.R.I.’s, he said, are not needed for the initial evaluation and treatment of many....
Study 2: "Nearly 90 percent of those scans were unnecessary

And both those studies and claims are irrelevant to the point I made ... that MRI's can be useful. Saying that sometimes they're unnecessary doesn't support the idea they're not "really useful in diagnosis." No need to continue to misrepresent the context of my comment. For the nth time.

Had the question on the table been about the use of MRI's for surgery rather than for diagnosis

Pre-op imaging is a form of diagnosis.

Lashing out randomly indicates a lack of better tools.

Then stop doing it. As in the whooping cough argument and as in the following:

In medical school I was taught that over 90% of diagnoses can be made on the basis of history alone. "

FWIW. Earlier today I happened to read that.

An irrelevant point if true.
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