Sunday, October 22, 2017

Full-body Scans

   Tonight's suggested improvement of the health-care system is perhaps a small one: Do full-body MRIs.
   When a person gets an MRI, it targets a certain part of the body. I don't understand why, while we've got the MRI machine up and running, we don't get as much information as we can. At no extra cost. 
   I don't know whether an MRI machine has a limited number of hours in its life. If so, then perhaps there is reason for limiting the MRI to just part of the body. My thought, though, is that there shouldn't be much of an expense for keeping the machine running an extra few minutes in order to get a full-body scan. That way, you not only find what you are looking for, but you can look at the rest of the body to see if anything anywhere is amiss, perhaps finding something you aren't looking for that would therefore otherwise go undetected. 

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