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mouton29

11/22/10 9:07 PM

#109384 RE: xrymd #109382

<<Every morning when I come in there are 20-25 CT's done after midnight from the ER clowns at my medium sized hospital. 95% are negative or noncontributory.

The total CT scans done each year is over 72 million (ER, inpatient and outpatient). They cause 29000 cancers per year and kill 14000 people per year.>>

Presumably you can't tell in advance which ones will be negative. But if 1% provide useful information and 20% of those life saving information, that translates to 144,000 lives saved. Of course, I just pulled those number out of the air.