There are principally 3 parties invested in the bargain of whether or not to receive a GBCA injection in MRI, although each category can be expanded: the patient, the radiologist (this can be broadened for simplicity to include hospital/imaging center, and referring physicians as well), and the contrast manufacturers. The patient is primarily focused on some combination of safety and accuracy, The radiologist interested in safety and accuracy, and also not being sued (I am a

There was a major publication a couple of months back describing the risk of taking aspirin as a preventive drug for heart vessel thrombosis (coronary artery disease) outweighed the benefit in elderly subjects with a number of factors- most of which were reasons to take aspirin to begin with. For 2 decades + we were instructed by cardiologists that low dose aspirin was critical to ward off heart attacks. 50,000 doctors in the US (cardiologists alone), including primary care p