CT scans as preventitive healthcare

I am a firm believer in the use of preventitive health care, annually preformed CT scans are one example of this. The use of CT scans to find a majority of problems in the body has become an extremley effective procedure. The problem is that it is sometimes used as a last resort, and that it is rarely given without some type of precondition that would lead a doctor to believe further examination is crucial.

One reason it is not used as frequently and reguraly as some would like could be due to the costs that go along with having the procedure done. Medical bills are higher than almost any other bills that we reguraly pay for, and although there is medical insurance to cover some of the costs, it can be almost as expensive and very hard for some lower income families to obtain. Partially because the medical feild is a necessity and people will always need medical help at some point in their life, insurance companies, along with facilities and doctors know that they can afford to charge so much for their procedures, like CT scans.

This causes a major problem. Individuals are naturally greedy, and when faced with the unmentionable costs of procedures they become juvenille, willing to risk their lives instead of just paying the medical bills. Also, many doctors know the repructions of having tests like CT scan done and against their better judgment they will sometimes demote to looking at less serious/expensive forms of healthcare instead of having the individuals go directly to the testing labs.

In people spend years of wasted time, money, and research only to continue coming up short, before going to a CT scan for proper dyagnosis. The problem is by this time the patient has wasted numerous amounts of recourses, and in doing so has allowed their condition to worsen. Through relationships i have encountered, i have noticed a multiple of individuals who suffered from cancer and other conditions because they failed to have a CT scan earlier than they did. My husbands mother, for instance, went to the doctor for years with back/nausea problems, and after being misdiagnosed several times she was finally able to recieve a CT scan. The final diagnosis was cancer, but by this time the illness had spread throughout 90percent of her body, was not able to undo the damage that ahd been caused, and eventually died. Had she been scanned and recieved the treatment she needed years prior to when she did, she might have had a chance to survive the illness.

Even though the costs of the procedure are extremley high, the cost of losing your loved one's life from the absence of having this test performed is even higher.