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Yeah, a cornerstone, you would think that, and I was excited when I got the referral, because I thought they'd be able to image all that soft tissue and see exa

Yeah, a cornerstone, you would think that, and I was excited when I got the referral, because I thought they'd be able to image all that soft tissue and see exactly what's going on in my shoulder, and I'd get a firm diagnosis and a path forward to healing it. So in the PCP's office, she gave me a hypothesis of two possible diagnoses and then sent me off to imaging to rule stuff out. I was already undergoing PT when the MRI happened, and I was disappointed by that aspect of PT. Because I had a mental image that they would receive several MiB of data on a disc, they'd pop it into their office computer, and guide me through a tour of my shoulder, pointing out where the damage was done, how I'd done it, and what we'd do to repair it. None of that came to pass. I struggled several months with the recalcitrant medical records departments, trying to get the records transferred, and the PT office really didn't seem excited about receiving them. I had to make sure that the raw data was sent and not just a slip of paper with a few sentences by the radiologist. And when I finally confirmed receipt they didn't seem eager to do anything about it. So yeah, it was definitely a ripoff for me, what can I say? Nobody even pretended to give me my money's worth on that thing. Although in the MRI waiting room, they had a full comprehensive Netflix subscription, and they handed me the remote to watch whatever I wanted, so it seems like medical imaging definitely pays the bills!

CyberDildonics 3y ago
If I have this right, you think MRIs are a scam because you expected them to fly through the MRI of your shoulder and find out exactly what was wrong and you think they are an insurance scam because they had netflix in the waiting room? Have you considered that maybe your expectations just don't line up to reality?
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  I expected that someone would have some use for the results of the scan. I expected someone to look at the scan and be able to form an opinion of some kind and tell me more about what was going on in there. Yes, it was confirmed that my expectations didn't line up to the reality. The reality was that the MRI was ignored. It was a dead letter. It was a fool's errand. It was a useless waste of money. What the fuck use is a medical test that everyone ignores, I ask you? What expectations should I have about a procedure that costs about $1,000 and produces a slip of paper that told me I moved around too much? Could not the PT doctor sit down in the office with me and say "well you moved around too much, but we can rule out X and Y." It seems like, if patient movement is a common error, that the tech would catch that and redo the scan on site, rather than produce botched data that's unusable and then charge insurance for it? That's what happens with X-rays. They may as well have gone over my body with a dowsing rod and a Ouija board. All they wanted to do was tick a box that said they are getting something done about it, and have me go waste 3 hours of my time. My PCP took my X-ray results and from that, we were able to determine that nothing was broken, and she also solemnly announced to me the presence of a congenital defect in the bones of my shoulder (that had nothing to do with the current injury) and she described the precise shape and nature of the defect along with its name, so that was an impressive use of an X-ray film. My dentist also uses X-rays all the time to tell me a lot of stuff about my teeth. So yes, my expectations were unnaturally inflated in terms of what to expect from an MRI, which produces way more data in way more detail about the inner parts of the body. But all that data was essentially shitcanned when nobody bothered to look at it.

CyberDildonics 3y ago

If I have this right, you think MRIs are a scam because you expected them to fly through the MRI of your shoulder and find out exactly what was wrong and you think they are an insurance scam because they had netflix in the waiting room? Have you considered that maybe your expectations just don't line up to reality?

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
I expected that someone would have some use for the results of the scan. I expected someone to look at the scan and be able to form an opinion of some kind and tell me more about what was going on in there. Yes, it was confirmed that my expectations didn't line up to the reality. The reality was that the MRI was ignored. It was a dead letter. It was a fool's errand. It was a useless waste of money. What the fuck use is a medical test that everyone ignores, I ask you? What expectations should I have about a procedure that costs about $1,000 and produces a slip of paper that told me I moved around too much? Could not the PT doctor sit down in the office with me and say "well you moved around too much, but we can rule out X and Y." It seems like, if patient movement is a common error, that the tech would catch that and redo the scan on site, rather than produce botched data that's unusable and then charge insurance for it? That's what happens with X-rays. They may as well have gone over my body with a dowsing rod and a Ouija board. All they wanted to do was tick a box that said they are getting something done about it, and have me go waste 3 hours of my time. My PCP took my X-ray results and from that, we were able to determine that nothing was broken, and she also solemnly announced to me the presence of a congenital defect in the bones of my shoulder (that had nothing to do with the current injury) and she described the precise shape and nature of the defect along with its name, so that was an impressive use of an X-ray film. My dentist also uses X-rays all the time to tell me a lot of stuff about my teeth. So yes, my expectations were unnaturally inflated in terms of what to expect from an MRI, which produces way more data in way more detail about the inner parts of the body. But all that data was essentially shitcanned when nobody bothered to look at it.