I am always (jadedly) suspicious with articles on 'false positives' within the medical field. Sure, statistics say that there are false positives. Personally,

I am always (jadedly) suspicious with articles on 'false positives' within the medical field. Sure, statistics say that there are false positives. Personally, I rather have three false positives, than one false negative. Taken to a bit of an extreme, the outcome of first is money spent and stress, the outcome of the later is death. I am not a statistics to myself. I am sorry for the inconvenience to the medical field by having to re-test, and certainly feel for the insurance company to have to pay for a second, or third opinion. I care, I really do. Just, not that much. That said, it took me decades to recognize the need and add sympathy into my calculations.