A doctor reconsiders the Midjourney ultrasound scanner's potential for accessible screening
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Matthew Zirwas, MD
Summary
A doctor reflects on being wrong about the potential value of the Midjourney ultrasound scanner. The author initially dismissed widespread screening imaging based on historical precedent showing it's net neutral or harmful. However, they now realize that those precedents were based on imaging that was expensive, inconvenient, physician-gated, and not easily repeatable. If the Midjourney ultrasound is high-resolution, harmless, inexpensive, and convenient, it could change the calculus entirely by allowing frequent, accessible screening.
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I missed something obvious because I was thinking like a doctor who's been practicing for 25 years.
All historical precedent that showed that widespread screening imaging is net neutral or harmful was imaging that was expensive, inconvenient, gated by physicians and couldn't practically be repeated frequently short term.
If the Midjourney ultrasound is high resolution, harmless, inexpensive and convenient, people can get an initial sc
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