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Depending on your definition of easy, it is. It just takes money. There are private clinics that will do full body MRI for preventative screening and diagnosis. This level of personal care is just cost prohibitive for most people


I mean, most of the time it is just pointless.

I’ve had like 3 MRI’s and 10 CT scans over the past 10 years because they’re cheap and plentiful in Japan, but they’ve only found something relevant once (to be fair, it was pretty nice they caught that cyst growing in my ass).

I’m left wondering if all those CT’s didn’t hurt more than they helped…


CT scans are pretty heavy radiation, 50 or 100 times as much as a standard x-ray. If they didn't find anything major than you are statistically worse off than if you never got them.




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