{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info?","description":"The most controversial part of last week\u2019s article on the Midjourney ultrasound scanner was medical experts\u2019 recommendation against whole-body screening (including existing whole-body screening technology using MRI). Isn\u2019t this crazy? Whole-body screening can save lives by detecting serious diseases like cancer. The experts counterargue that it finds so many false positives - minor zit-like imperfections that would never have caused problems, but which cost patients time, money, anxiety, and side effect burden to investigate - that it ends up net negative. But isn\u2019t this just a problem of setting thresholds correctly? Can\u2019t you commit to only investigating the most obviously bad things, then ignore the rest? This seemed like an interesting problem to investigate in more depth, so I\u2019ve tried to get numbers. These are rough estimates loosely based on parameters extracted from unsatisfactory studies1 - please don\u2019t take them seriously as exact values, just as right-order-of-magnitude estimates. We\u2019ll focus on whole-body MRIs, since this is a well-studied existing technology, then speculate later on how the results might generalize to whole-body ultrasound. https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/should-people-avoid-whole-body-screening ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"