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tptacekyesterday at 10:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I think you're missing the point. The psychological cost of a conditional-positive result is nonzero, and can be very significant (I speak from a little bit of experience here). But far more importantly: the physiological cost of invasive followups when you eventually trip the threshold of "time to go explore with a scalpel" is very high, and the missing evidence this story is about is whether you can get to that threshold with an MRI.

Treating MRIs the way we treat blood tests would almost certainly result in huge numbers of needless invasive procedures.


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lostlogintoday at 4:52 AM

This is pretty much what the experts say:

https://www.ranzcr.com/college/document-library/2024-positio...