https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/583468799145349120
To his credit, Mark Cuban, engaged on Twitter in response to my post.
Mark, I’m sorry I had to leave Twitter abruptly. My wife threatened to kill me and then divorce me – in that order – if I didn’t get off Twitter instantly and get the groceries.
However, I caught the tail end of the Tweets. I’ll do my best to respond.
1. “Why is this contingency all radiologists?”
Mark wondered why everyone on a thread about overtesting were radiologists. It would be a great question if radiologists, who deal with testing, overtesting, limitations of testing, harms of testing, benefits of testing, appropriateness of testing, in other words the science of testing, would be offering advice on financial planning or offering the White House advice on their ISIS policy.
I can do no better than quote @jeffware.
“Exactly Mark – why are the Drs. who specialize in testing trying to explain the dangers of overtesting?”
That was a rhetorical question. But there are some entrepreneurial radiologists who are licking their lips at the epidemic of overtesting. I can hear them say “Mark and acolytes, bring it on.”
To wit, overtesting is better business for us. So our objection is not financially motivated. Let me make this even clearer. The more blood tests and genomic tests the “must prove that I’m healthy” brigade have, more $$$ for radiologists.
