Just like they can use MRI often instead of CT scan but opt for CT because quicker and cheaper- radiation be damned. I rarely see docs takes radiation into consideration. Instead they say bs stuff like it’s the same amount exposed to had you been on a flight to Europe. Yet that exposure on a flight is concentrated all on one body part and within a millisecond intensity.
“Just like they can use MRI often instead of CT scan but opt for CT because quicker and cheaper- radiation be damned. I rarely see docs takes radiation into consideration.”
To my great surprise, a physiatrist (a minimally-invasive spine & rehabilitative medicine sub-specialist) I saw for the first time a few weeks ago actually included that in the list of why he preferred MRIs vs more radiation-emitting imaging methods.