I worked at a startup that dealt with these scanners (sending patient info to them so nothing very sexy) that had a lot of input from radiologists. They also h

I worked at a startup that dealt with these scanners (sending patient info to them so nothing very sexy) that had a lot of input from radiologists. They also had the same belief as this — there’s always something wrong in the body so if theres not a complaint from the patient about a particular issue they either will gloss over it when looking at the charts or they will flag it to look at some more. One of the issues here is that a full body scan is typically done at a low resolution to save on time and disk space. These scans aren’t good enough to make a diagnosis from and leave the radiologist in the position of wondering if a couple of pixels could be cancer or is something normal. When your practice is on the line for making a call you will tend to err on the side of caution and recommend everything be looked more closely unless you can absolutely rule out a problem. I was a little shocked when finding this out. I always thought it was like getting your blood tested and it coming back with a couple of the dozens of items that they look at being high and that could be a concern. It is much more inexact than that.