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This is a really weird claim to me. It can’t be about the MRI itself, it must be about the surrounding politics or legal environment.

How can it ever be bad to have more objective data? Having a test result to ignore is still strictly better than not testing at all. You still have the option to ignore or discount the test results if you want to. If you’re forced to do otherwise that’s entirely a human problem, not a technological one.

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> How can it ever be bad to have more objective data? Having a test result to ignore is still strictly better than not testing at all.

That’s why you base healthcare on data. And that’s what the data shows.

I still don’t get it.

If MRIs lead to unnecessary biopsies, then don’t do the biopsy. What exactly does the data show? If doing a test leads to an unnecessary biopsy, how can it be the test’s fault? Tests aren’t moral agents. The MRI machine can’t make any healthcare decisions for anyone.

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