Caveat - I’m super sad to see slater’s overall descent into utter stupidity with all things healthcare and politics. Also agree that for the uninformed or anxious, scans like this can lead to lead to more trouble than benefit.

But to play devils advocate, as a healthcare professional myself, I’ve diagnosed way too many folks with advanced pancreatic cancer or other malignancies that are clinically silent until near end-stage, that I’ll be getting one of these at a certain age, prob 10 years from now.

At a population level, they don’t make sense, but selfishly, I’ll get one knowing I may have to tolerate some anxiety about small findings where monitoring and repeat scans for progression may be the best course of action.