Agreed. I think the article and parent comment seem to be from the perspective of someone who has never had to, say, read or interpret a chest CT. Or had to tel

Agreed. I think the article and parent comment seem to be from the perspective of someone who has never had to, say, read or interpret a chest CT. Or had to tell someone that they have an indeterminate module that may be cancer but may be nothing. The article also seems to imply that their is one entity or person who controls all aspects of diagnosis (hence the meme at the top), from taking a history and doing a physical exam to perfectly understanding the intricacies of all additional diagnostic testing. Of course, your primary care doctor may not understand exactly what percentage of people in a low (or high) risk cohort with this lung nodule with certain specific imaging features turn out to have cancer. Hopefully the radiologist does—but they didn’t talk with the patient to assess their risk tolerance and data-collection preferences before saying “consider further evaluation with tissue sampling” in that report. At the end of the day, respecting patient autonomy matters. It sounds like whoever wrote this article would lean towards asking their doctor to collect as much information as possible. Others wouldn’t. In a perfect world, the patient will be well informed by their doctor, be well-counseled on the risks and benefits of a test / intervention, and will be capable of understanding things like statistics well enough to come to an informed decision that works for them. In reality, that often does not happen for a number of reasons.