[fisherjeff]

Agreed. MRI machines are not the bottleneck - we have 3 in my area, serving maybe 100k people. Assuming most people are like me and spend about an hour in an MRI machine every 40 years, we should be at something like 25% utilization, which seems comfortable.

[s1artibartfast]

Thats a pretty big assumption. How old are you? My elderly parents are getting MRIs once or more per year.

They are very common in orthopedic medicine.

[fisherjeff]

Okay that’s a very surprising number of MRIs…

I’m in my early 40s and have had 1. Everyone I know well has had 1 or (more typically) none, including my parents and in-laws, so I figured ~2 lifetime MRIs would be in the right ballpark

[tptacek]

Yes. That's probably a bad thing.