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How imaging consent forces impossible risk calculations

I had to sign consent for my daughter's contrast CT and keep thinking about radiation exposure but also about what we might miss if we do not look.

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Medical decisions require weighing abstract future harms against present diagnostic needs with insufficient information for either choice.

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