I believe this is indicative of a frustrating phenomenon in the U.S. healthcare/legal system where many doctors are prone to being overly cautious due to the th

I believe this is indicative of a frustrating phenomenon in the U.S. healthcare/legal system where many doctors are prone to being overly cautious due to the threat of malpractice litigation. You rarely hear of doctors being sued for unnecessary testing. They are much more likely to be sued for missing a cancer. This happens even when it was reasonable to miss a cancer. A doctor who is overly concerned about litigation can thus cause harm through the patient stress and physical effects of unnecessary followup testing when it is not justified. Rather than sticking our heads in the sand by not screening because we are worried that some doctors will have a harmful false positive rate, we should be addressing the root causes of the high false positive rate.