THE VIDEO SHELF · medical testing and screening
If money was no object, should you run every medical test?
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 HN readers recommended it
HN people link it as a short, funny and accurate explanation of why over-testing and over-screening can do harm.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Medlife Crisis
- Topic
- medical testing and screening
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There's a great (and short) video suggesting why it's not a good idea to run as many medical tests as possible, and it's not because of the cost: [VIDEO]
joosters on Hacker News · 2019-03
In I Now Have a CardiologistAn under 3-minute video by a funny and informative doctor explaining this (youtube handle "medlife crisis"): [VIDEO]
tasty_freeze on Hacker News · 2021-05
In Are we screening too much for skin cancer? It's complicated
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