HNC wrote:
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ut most people are in the middle. An MRI is a completely safe radiation free test that gives a diagnosis. I wonder how many of us would take an A/C which was misfunctioning but nobody had bothered to ask WHY? In Germany an immediate MRI is the norm and some 90% of acute back pain patients are back at work in 3 weeks. In the UK MRIs in the NHS are effectively rationed and less than 70% of people are back at work in 6 months. The data is clear.
Wow
Some amazing data.
Can you provide a reference for this?
MRIs are an effective tool in managing the appropriate care pathway for patients where indicated but to suggest that by sticking everyone in a scanner you get magnificent success rates in getting people back to work is not true nor the converse that without an MRI people are doomed to a life of misery.
Nor is the suggestion true that MRIs on the NHS are rationed.
Or that the true cost of an MRI is in the region of 40 quid.