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To: LindyBill who wrote (1099)	8/31/2008 5:33:17 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 39304

Dr Davis commented on the MSM article: You would think that a technology-dependent field like medicine would also be quick adopt new technologies that facilitate health. Not always so. This will sound excessively cynical, but imagine heart scans cost $5000 each, and any score of, say, >100 led to $25,000 of procedures. Guess what? Everybody would be scrambling to do them, hospitals would offer education programs, colleagues would fight over patients. One of the basic problems is that heart scans, like mammograms, make money for nobody and, in fact, are usually performed at a loss to the scan center. What this means is that heart scans have to gain everyone's approval on its own merits, without the hype and appeal of profits. Heart scans also stand to usurp the standard path to profits in heart disease. This not only generates reluctance, but resistance. Slowly, ever so slowly, the status quo is crumbling.