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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:
Either the White House doc is a lying sack of shit, or taxpayers have been pissing away money for decades.
We do MRIs of the abdomen to look for specific cancers, or evaluate the common bile duct, but it is not a routine study, and certainly not a normal part of a yearly physical at any age.
We use MRI to image the heart to work up cardiomyopathy — failing heart muscle —, but otherwise it is not a typical way to look at the heart. It is never routine.