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You should contrast the cost of a CT/MRI here vs in other countries like India or Japan. The funny thing is, I ask healthcare professionals the same question a
by lucidrains 14y ago
You should contrast the cost of a CT/MRI here vs in other countries like India or Japan.
The funny thing is, I ask healthcare professionals the same question and it is always just chalked up to the broken economics.
- FireBeyond 14y agoSomewhat unsurprisingly, doctors who own an investment interest (or outright ownership of equipment / facility) are 3.7 times more likely to order CT/MRI scans. That is purely human "greed". I somehow doubt that self-selection of patients needing such imaging is occurring.
- Tyr42 14y agoWell, or the doctor is interested and knowledgeable in MRI scans, which leads to both investment and more likely to use it as a tool.
- FireBeyond 14y agoWhich either says that other doctors are under-using MRI scans (doubtful, the US orders more CT/MRI scans per capita than any other country on earth by nearly seventy per cent, which to say that doctors elsewhere should be doing up to six times more), or that they're exploring their own "interest" at the cost of the consumer.