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93 The Anxieties of Full-Body MRI Scans (Not Covered by Insurance)

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 12/06/2025 21:34 EDT

The Anxieties of Full-Body MRI Scans (Not Covered by Insurance)

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calls himself "a highly creative hypochondriac" — who just paid for an expensive MRI scan to locate abnormal spots as tiny as 2 millimeters.



He discusses the pros and cons of its "diffusion-weighted imaging" technology combined with the pattern recognition of AI, which theoretically "has the potential to save our lives by revealing budding cancers, silent aneurysms and other hidden would-be killers before they become deadly. "


But the scans cost $2,500 a pop and.

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