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Originally Posted by zygopetalum
I returned yesterday for a routine CT scan follow up and he said "What meds are you on?" He doesn't chart things that he feels are trivial either.
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Routine CT scan?
The first time I was given a CT scan, I was told by ER staff that it was "like an x-ray". After the fact I learned that that was "
not entirely accurate."
* The
scan dose of CTs can be hundreds to thousands of times the radiation of a typical x-ray.
In some cases, the potential benefits outweigh the
risk; in others there are other scanning methods that are safer.
You are probably aware of all this; it just raises my hackles when (I perceive) doctors order/use CT scans so cavalierly.
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He's very into 'evidence based medicine', if he can't test for it or it isn't the most likely scenario as far as he is concerned it does not exist.
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I get that
to a point. Doctors are trained to think that way—to verify or rule out the most likely cause/reason, and work outward from there. (We see this often in the PN forum.) How far to go (or not to go) can be a tough call for anyone. I often/usually lean toward 'most likely scenarios' vs. 'remotely possible' ones myself. I often opine in posts when I think something is more/less likely.
However I try not to go so far as dismissing something as non-existent/impossible.
Things can look very different depending on which side of the fence we're on.
Doc
* One of my favorite movie quotes—this one from
Independence Day (a little past halfway down the page).