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by eru 972 days ago
The kidney surgery only looks so low risk (partially) because they only do it on people that passed the CT scan.

(To give an even more extreme example for illustration:

Suppose the scan could perfectly predict who will die from the surgery and who will live without any side effects. Suppose 90% of people fall into the former and 10% of people fall into the latter category. Suppose further that the scan has a 0.1% chance of killing you.

If you scan people beforehand, it will look like the surgery has 0% chance of complications against 0.1% of the scan. But if you dropped the scan, all of a sudden the surgery would have a 90% death rate.)

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One of the reasons they do the scan is that they look at both kidneys only take your WORST one
If that's the case, is it possible Scott is lying or leaving out information on what kidney it was?