I’ve seen so many horror stories where someone gets sick or is in pain, thinking they know what’s causing it only to find out they have late stage cancer. I don’t understand…..wouldn’t insurance companies want to offer this like they would a free yearly physical as it would be cheaper for them than paying out cancer treatments? Wouldn’t doctors want to push they’re patients to have this service done?
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If a medical test provides a false positive 1% of the time but the real prevalence of the issue is .01% of the population, then you have 99 patients unnecessarily freaking out and consuming medical resources for each case that the test catches.
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