@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid Doctors order regular scans for growths that they have not biopsied. They collect data about the growth over time to determine whether they think it is medically necessary to biopsy it. This is a smart use of non invasive scans imo.
@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid Yes, a follow up to abnormal scan results being more noninvasive scanning is entirely reasonable. You shouldn’t just cut someone open because you aren’t sure what a growth is on the first scan. This is my point. Good job doctors.
@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid I do I agree it’s not a good analogy. Looking for cars is only done because you want to cross the road.
Noninvasive scans are different because the goal isn’t to cut the patient open, the goal is simply to gather information about what’s happening inside their body.
@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid Yes to determine the cellular makeup of a growth you do need to take a sample, but that is not the only way to gather information about growths. Clearly not!
@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid Why aren’t breast biopsies done after every mammogram given the prevalence of benign growths in the breast?
Why do doctors order regular scans of concerning growths in cancer patients if they don’t get diagnostic information about the growth from the scans?
@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid “but if we scan then we have no choice but to cut the patient open to biopsy growths that we don’t consider to be concerning in the first place!”
hmm, maybe don’t cut people open if you don’t have a good reason to? Having more data doesn’t make you do that!
@JenPrimalCoach@aleroi@CanesDavid There is no risk of looking for cars. And if you aren’t sure if a car you see is moving towards you, you keep watching to see if it gets closer.
You keep conflating non-invasive scans with invasive biopsies, but those are different procedures. The scanner doesn’t have a scalpel.
@bruce_lambert@jachiam0 You and your colleagues could work on structuring how the medical practice can process and interpret data at a larger scale with these considerations in mind.
You’re going to be getting more data, that writing is on the wall. The time to figure out how to handle it is now.
@willreil One time at the end of the semester to blow off steam me and some lab mates thought it’d be fun to apply the wrong polarity to the biggest electrolytic we had on hand.
nothing happened 🤧
@deanwball@OpenAI What’s the 2028 game plan for OpenAI if democrats win? Fire Dean Ball for his previous employment? Don’t want to be antagonistic to the federal government after all!