I don’t think doctors here would agree to it, and probably just flip out tbh.
But regardless of what the law says, there is nothing unethical about it, and you should do this on your next appointment.
Lawyers on X: are people allowed to record their visits w/their MDs? I’m prepping an episode on patient-MD dynamics in the emerging medical landscape. I’ll of course filter answers against varying local and state laws. To my MD friends: it’s already happening…
if biopsies and interventions had 0% complication rates we could scan everyone daily and chase down every single shadow. Nobody would care about false alarms if the confirmation step was free and harmless..
but in reality the confirmation step requires needles, knives, radiation, and anesthesia.
to find that one "obvious" tumor, you inevitably generate thousands of ambiguous shadows in other healthy people.
and because if even a tiny percentage of those surgeries and biopsies go sideways, flooding the population with mass imaging means you inevitably kill or cripple completely healthy people to clear the alarms.
the tech bro "just ignore the minor stuff" strategy completely falls apart in real-world humans.
It’s extremely important that you take ownership of your own healthcare decisionmaking bc you’re very likely to encounter doctors who are not equipped to make responsible decisions even if they have sufficient information to do so because their training is that bad