How “safe” are CT scans?
https://greenmedinfo.com/content/unseen-dangers-new-data-links-ct-scans-100000-cancer-cases
Important information to know. CT scans are a necessary diagnostic tool, but have we gotten a little too cavalier about doing them? Are we doing them only when necessary? Have we really discussed the risk?
This breaks down this very discussion. CT is an important tool in diagnostics, and one we should have in our arsenal. The risk is from accumulation over time with repeated multiple CT scans
Radiation damage is cumulative. The more REMs you soak up over time, the greater the damage. We can't avoid radiation. It's part of nature. But we can be judicious with our exposure.
Circle back to insurance reimbursement to the provider, the treatment facility and the "specialists."
Referral to facility providing service: what equipment do they have?
Which techs do they employ?
Are they wholly owned subsidiaries of your doctor-hospital group, and thus incentivized by using their own devices?
Do they receive fed funding?
ARE TREATMENTS DECIDED BY THE CONGLOMO-entity...
or by the BOARD who makes the purchasing decisions, rather than the one-on-one contact you have with your doc?
If you don't have insurance, you receive a separate bill for each person who looks at you, talks to you, flips open (or accesses the computer for) your medical record. It's daunting and revealing how many handlers you have.
If you have insurance, the mailed EOB is absurd.