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> They sent me back for an MRI for reasons I'm really not sure about. MRI can much better visualize soft tissue (tendons and ligaments) than x-ray imaging. Thi

• NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  I'm well aware of what MRIs are capable of; thanks for the explanation, but it was the reasons and motives that I question, because as I said, none of the providers really cared to read or interpret the results or make any diagnosis based on the scans, other than "welp nothing's broken, go to PT." Many medical tests are not used as diagnostic aids, but as insurance tickboxes or fishing expeditions. You can have a really simple ailment and if you tell the PCP too much about it, they will order a battery of tests just to rule out a bunch of crazy stuff. Or conversely if you seem too healthy, the PCP will order increasingly invasive tests in order to find something to treat. (Also the standards bodies move their goalposts so that healthy people are more likely meet the requirements for disorders, like "catching cancer early" with colonoscopies and mammograms, or hypertension criteria that get stricter and stricter.) Doctors can also get fairly adamant about the testing according to their standards. I told a doctor she didn't need to test all my liver enzymes (at a time when I was out-of-pocket for everything) and she said she didn't feel like refilling my thyroid medication if I didn't let her test anything and everything she wanted. So I was essentially blackmailed into submitting to that. Now can you imagine being out-of-pocket on an MRI that nobody will use?