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.
Sorry my comment seemed off subject, but related to CT v MRI when i discussed my suspicious mamm w/my obgyn a few years ago, we talked about additional testing.
Ultimately, the initial scans and checks were "convenient" to the doctors associated with my obgyn, NOT for my best interests.
No worries. I made my choices. In a later encounter, I fired my crazy obgyn for requiring outrageous "safety" protocols for covid.
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.
Sorry my comment seemed off subject, but related to CT v MRI when i discussed my suspicious mamm w/my obgyn a few years ago, we talked about additional testing.
Ultimately, the initial scans and checks were "convenient" to the doctors associated with my obgyn, NOT for my best interests.
No worries. I made my choices. In a later encounter, I fired my crazy obgyn for requiring outrageous "safety" protocols for covid.
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