> perhaps to the point that regular full-body MRI scans for preventative healthcare could be feasible.
This is an interesting problem. Speaking with a number of physicians among the family, there's a perspective that having a population performing all these tests can possibly cause more problems than they solve. If the goal is to holistically make a person healthy and happy, discovering diagnoses that have no practical effects on someone's well-being can result in reducing their well-being just by knowing about it. Humans are notoriously bad this way. Tell someone their liver is somewhat different from an average adult liver and they'll start assigning symptoms to it.
It’s worse than this. Unnecessary biopsies, extra tests with associated risks and misdiagnosis etc are all part of any screening procedure.
Whole body MR scanning also lacks the resolution and quality of dedicated body site scans. As with everything, if you ask a good question you get a better answer. ‘Is there a problem in this person?’ Is not a good question.
Yeah. Certainly not saying it's an open and shut case on the right way to test. Obviously we do whole-population preventative medicine for many things.
This is an interesting problem. Speaking with a number of physicians among the family, there's a perspective that having a population performing all these tests can possibly cause more problems than they solve. If the goal is to holistically make a person healthy and happy, discovering diagnoses that have no practical effects on someone's well-being can result in reducing their well-being just by knowing about it. Humans are notoriously bad this way. Tell someone their liver is somewhat different from an average adult liver and they'll start assigning symptoms to it.