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Findings on imaging have value in specific clinical contexts.

There are a lot of things you can see that will take you down a rabbit hole of further investigations and turn out to be nothing.

We perform fetal ultrasonography which excludes most of the relevant deadly cardiac conditions.

It is well established in medicine that improved/early detection does not equal improved patient outcomes and can actually result in patient harm.



> It is well established in medicine that improved/early detection does not equal improved patient outcomes and can actually result in patient harm.

Is there a specific time of detection that is well established as improving patient outcomes?




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