What to do if your doctor wants you to get a GBCA-enhanced MRI
This question was poised to me by a patient who was worried about getting a GBCA-enhanced MRI to evaluate a liver lesion seen on ultrasound. This is a circumstance that patients are left to make their own risk-benefit analysis. The first thing to realize is that you don't have to receive anything you don't want to get. Perhaps this alone is a liberating thought, and I think many patients when confronted by an insistent physician feel they have no choice - but you do. If you d