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I really wish that we'd be more proactive analyzing those afflicted more longitudinally.

I know that for maybe $400-$500, you can do a high-res brain MRI and track size of brain regions, thickness of cortical layers etc.

Brainkey.ai is such a company (I'm affiliated), and I find it amazing what you can do now and what you can likely do in the future.

If nothing else, having a baseline scan would be super handy if anything causes cause for alarm later.

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You can't do a MRI in NB for $400-500. The province has 11 MRIs and they're under almost constant use, and not for private use.

The healthcare situation down there is ghastly.

Maybe not everywhere but for sure in the Bay Area.

But this isn't everywhere, this is NB. Are you going to fly these people to the Bay Area for an MRI? That's no longer $500, that flight is around $1000 and 12h+ each way.

Having more options to share medical records would be helpful as well (with patients consent obviously). Legacy attitude stating that all medical information should be kept super private is irrational and to me looks like a cargo cult.

>Legacy attitude stating that all medical information should be kept super private is irrational and to me looks like a cargo cult.

Without privacy for medical information people will be discriminated against at every corner. This is not "legacy attitude" but common sense and experience. In special cases like this I'm guessing the patients would consent to the release, since it's much worse dying like this, but a blanket statement that less medical privacy is good sounds naive.

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