I often hear stories of a guy who has a heart attack and come to find out that 95% of a major blood vessel to the heart was clogged.
How is this not picked up earlier during normal exams? Why isn’t it?
Can’t they do radiation shots to see where the blood flows or whatever?
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There are different ways to get to the same result. The trouble with screenings is that they create some number of false positives and aren’t as reliable as lay folk imagine. This is an ongoing controversy in the cancer world. Some clinicians for decades argued for detailed cancer screenings for all. Test results ended up being misinterpreted, and there were surgical interventions that didn’t have to happen and likely wouldn’t have happened without the screenings.
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