It sounds like the reading helped you, though. Maybe it gave you a purpose or it focused your worry into something that felt productive. Either way, you would o

It sounds like the reading helped you, though. Maybe it gave you a purpose or it focused your worry into something that felt productive. Either way, you would only be able to conclude that the reading wasn't productive by doing the reading. Basically, I understand and sympathize with why you went down that rabbit hole. I have gone down those rabbit holes for far less compelling reasons. Also, I have similarly concluded that medical literature's probabilistic nature means it has little bearing on the N=1 of a personal medical issue. Glad to hear your dad is an outlier. Here's to more clean scans!