[igortg]

I thought the same. There are papers analyzing data about that.

https://www.wiserhealthcare.org.au/too-much-of-a-good-thing-...

> As well as being unlikely to be beneficial, full body general health checks in asymptomatic people can potentially be harmful. The main harms are overdiagnosis, detrimental psychological effects, negative effects on health behaviours (for example, failure to quit smoking due to reassurance of good health), complications related to follow-up tests, and unnecessary treatments.

[spongebobstoes]

those scans are one-off events, these scans are regular

the signal is improved by focusing on differences over time, instead of looking for insight from a single snapshot

in a production system, I look at the change log around incident start as one high signal way to diagnose the problem

I want the same ability with my own body. new pain? look for recent scan deltas, in conjunction with modern medical intuition

[heironimus]

We already have had that for millennia. Moles. Benign cysts. Unusual body shapes. Doctors have learned to say more than “just pretend that’s not there”. They have learned what’s important and what’s not and how to explain such things.

Why can’t learning more about unusual things we can’t see with the naked eye be the same?

“Bury your head in the sand to avoid harm” does not seem to be the right path.

Scans like this will have short term difficulties while we better figure out what’s important and what’s not but will only help long term.