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If money was no object, should you run every medical test?

Medlife Crisis · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Medicine & infectious diseaseProbability & game theory

What it is

A doctor from Medlife Crisis explains in under three minutes why even a rich patient should not simply order every medical test, touching on pre-test probability and Bayesian reasoning. False positives make blanket testing counterproductive.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people link it as a short, funny and accurate explanation of why over-testing and over-screening can do harm.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “There's a great (and short) video suggesting why it's not a good idea to run as many medical tests as possible”

    Short video on why over-testing is not a good idea

    joosters, 2019-03 · Recommendation · in “I Now Have a Cardiologist”

  2. “An under 3-minute video by a funny and informative doctor explaining this”

    Short, funny, informative explanation of medical screening

    tasty_freeze, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Are we screening too much for skin cancer? It's complicated”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bayesian inference, pre-test probability, overdiagnosis, false positives, screening

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