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t1_j2932xo wrote

Reply to comment by in TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal. by

Much higher chance of dying during appendectomy than developing cancer from a single CT scan

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t1_j2978ji wrote

Not at all. You have a higher risk of dying driving to the hospital than doing the surgery

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t1_j297gkm wrote

You are drastically overestimating the level of risk involved with a single CT scan

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