Could not agree with Golfing Eagles more.
As a board certified cardiologist I have seen many more complications from unnecessary testing than I care to imagine. Usually the docs succumbs to patient pressure or "just to be sure"
Case in point- screening stress test with no symptoms or risk factors for CAD. Stress test comes back mildly abnormal ( of which 40-50% do) , onto a nuclear stress test with again a mild abnormality (30 % false positive rate) , onto a heart cath in which a spiral dissection of a coronary occurs obligating a coronary bypass.
Now did anybody really do this patient any favors.
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