The problem I have with this is not the scan per se but the fact that it's just more pressure to treat patients like a specimen in a petri dish rather than a pr

The problem I have with this is not the scan per se but the fact that it's just more pressure to treat patients like a specimen in a petri dish rather than a product of their environment. Dr. McCoy's tricorder was kind of a vision of tech enhancing the old fashioned "doctor making house calls with a little black bag" idea. Reality: Tech has created increased pressure for patients to travel to the medical facility rather than care coming to them. One side effect: Doctors who don't do house calls can't incidentally notice things about your lifestyle that may contribute to the problem and may not know to ask or may not ask because it's an offensive thing to say and you may not know to volunteer the info. (If you knew, you might just fix it without seeing a doctor.) I remember a scene from some TV show that made a powerful impression on me in my youth where the doctor burns a fur after seeing several patients. I think he realized it was a tick borne illness and the bear skin (iirc) was the source (of ticks). It came very out of left field for me, but I've seen stories that suggest this is in part how medicine used to operate -- by the doctor noticing and fixing the cause of the problem in some cases -- and mostly doesn't anymore. Now we go in for drugs and surgeries and for some people that just means the start of an endless nightmare of chronic illness while doctors question their mental health and imply they are hypochondriacs.