| ▲ | hn_user82179 6 hours ago | |
My guess is unnecessary surgeries which isn't an unreasonable concern. Something like 40% of MRIs showing spinal disc herniation are asymptomatic and the rate of surgeries to fix can be a coinflip. | ||
| ▲ | bluGill 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Having a diagnosis doesn't mean we have to treat. If we find something minor with no symptoms we can ignore it. However there are things with minor symptoms people ignore to their harm. I wish I had my MRI a decade sooner, but the symptoms were the same thing everyone else has that is self treatable and comes and goes over time. When it finally got bad enough that I demanded help the normal help didn't work and only then did they find something major and rare. | ||