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Yes and if your doctor tells you that you need to do one will you argue? My understanding is that we’re already “over testing”, though would defer to someone w
by bberenberg 3y ago
Yes and if your doctor tells you that you need to do one will you argue?
My understanding is that we’re already “over testing”, though would defer to someone with a citation on the topic.
- mindslight 3y agoYes, obviously you should "argue" and require an explanation of the doctor's reasoning. I just literally rejected doing an MRI this past weekend, in an emergency context, that would have been financially "free". The things it might have found were already disimplied by bloodwork, or were rare with no treatment options, and in my opinion the amount of iatrogenic harm from the procedure would have been unjustified. A patient or trusted advocated needs to be involved in a patient's own care, and the current "insurance" system does a great job at destroying this as doctors focus on "insurance" companies and associated bureaucracy as decision makers rather than patients. IMO this is precisely where the request to do an MRI was coming from in the first place - bureaucratic ass-covering.
- singleshot_ 3y agoWhat harm is caused to your body by an MRI?
- mindslight 3y agoPlacing an IV after they had already botched it three times, living on lactated Ringer's instead of real food for the better part of a day, IV sedation anesthesia and its possible complications, (I didn't investigate side effects of the contrast), and the further destruction of bodily autonomy and resulting lack of alertness that comes from all those.
- singleshot_ 3y agoYikes. Seems like a pretty serious MRI. Good luck. On one hand, this defensive practice of medicine is objectionable. On the other, it only exists because people like to sue providers when outcomes are bad. I’m glad you had a good outcome.
- mindslight 3y agoEverything turned out fine, thank you. I do get why in an emergency context doctors want to do as many tests as possible in parallel, and have very little context to guide them otherwise. But also I don't have much sympathy for things "only" being a certain way because of some other thing. The medical industry is a whole set of self-reinforcing terrible dynamics, which is why we need sweeping reform. I've also got to wonder how much this narrative bemoaning MRIs for "headaches" is because doctors have rightfully moved to doing less harmful MRIs instead of less expensive X-ray CTs.