Getting an MRI without a medical reason has an extra risk. If you and your radiologist/doctor aren't focused on a "problem area", you might just find one anyway

Getting an MRI without a medical reason has an extra risk. If you and your radiologist/doctor aren't focused on a "problem area", you might just find one anyway. Here's story in the New York Times about a person who went in for a CT Scan for stomach pains, but ended up "discovering" a harmless lump in her adrenal mass. Of course, it cost more than a thousand dollars of further testing to declare it "benign". Surely I have some artery that “looks constricted” or an “abscess” to fret about. I'd say this is the biggest risk for me getting an MRI "just for the data". Because of this, I'm considering skipping the analysis after the scan. Just save the file to Google Drive and get another scan to compare to in 5 or 10 years. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/the-fallout-of-a-chance-medical-finding/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/the-fallout-of-a-ch... Updated the post to include this section