This has been my major issue transitioning from aerospace to biomedical engineering.
In aerospace, EVERYTHING is up for debate. you wana put the wings backwards on a plane? fuck it, Sukhoi su-47. Oh you want intermeshing rotors? Kaman K-max it is.
In medicine, people flex their credentials (“doctor here 👋”) and rely on prior art:
“usually are not”
“standard practice”
“typically not”
EVERYTHING should be grounded in first principles and rigorous testing. Medicine is not like that, because of people like Dr. Kelly Morrison who look at a miraculous full body scanning technology that can see through you at unprecedented resolution- LITERALLY SCI-FI TECHNOLOGY- and can’t imagine using it for preventative means- simply because people haven’t done that before.
You could give a magic X-ray gun to some third world, medieval shaman or witch-doctor and the first thing they would say is “yo we should scan everyone and make sure nothing looks weird inside”.
How is this not the obvious response? I can’t see a future in which everyone isn’t getting MRI’d and having their images analyzed by AI.
The future of medicine IS PREVENTATIVE. i don’t give a fuck what any doctor or pharma company says about it. Their incentive structures have been broken for the last hundred years.
An ounce of prevention > a pound of cure. Please, for the love of God, think a LITTLE outside the box for once!
Doctor here 👋 There's no such thing as a "preventative MRI."