The Exchanges

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00

Q you can cure most of them. The challenge is that most of the time, cancer is not detected until it's symptomatic, and by that point, you're in stage three or four. Um, the idea here is that, is that a full body scan could possibly detect diseases in their early phases, and, and that will enable a patient to, to, to deal with them earlier. Is that, is that right?

A Correct. And what's really unique about these scans is when you come in for a scan, we scan your liver something like 13 or 14 times. And we're actually filtering for different tissue composition. We're filtering for blood, fat, Protonicious tissue. And there's one really, really special filter that you need to have very, very good hardware to do, which is a filter for hardness. And what we know about cancer is, well, not everything that feels hard is a cancer. All solid tumors are harder than the surrounding tissue. And so it enables us to be a lot more sensitive for very early stage cancer. And that's why the vast majority of the cancer that we catch is actually stage one or localized to the organ of origin. So we're, so we're able to do what women do for their breasts, which is feel for lumps. We can do that digitally with these machines through the entire body, including the parts that you can't feel very well yourself, and be able to do that at a quality that enables us to detect these lesions very, very early.

AI assessment note: “Correct. And what's really unique about these scans is”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q quoted as saying, I have a family history of cancer, and I would not consider getting a full body scan like pre-nuvus. Um, and I was, I was surprised, maybe surprised to hear that, but at the same time, I mean, when you ask people like that, because you must encounter them, and you say, why? Do you understand their reasoning? Do you, do you understand their point of view?

A I, I don't fundamentally understand it. Oftentimes we reach out and ask for them to come in and visit a clinic and, or meet with our radiologists, but unfortunately they don't, people don't always take us up on those offers. We've made thousands of potentially life-saving early cancer diagnoses or aneurysm diagnoses. We've provided a lot of clarity into very early stages of chronic disease that, if caught later, significantly affect both outcomes and costs for the health system. So I guess I'm a little bit surprised That there isn't more enthusiasm and inquisitiveness by the health system at large when I think everyone would acknowledge that we have a health system that is just tremendously reactive and, uh, is not really meeting our needs.

AI assessment note: “I, I don't fundamentally understand it.”

Answered produced feed D 4 · C 5 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90

Q world of health, because, um, I guess there's this doctor in Canada named Rajpal Atariwala, and he, like, already in, like, 2010, he started experimenting with, he bought, he took a loan, he bought an MRI machine to offer MRIs to people who wanted them, just voluntary You know, MRIs who were willing to pay for them. How did you hear about this guy? How did you come across him?

A Well, in my own explorations in the field of health, I was doing a lot of Self-reflection on my own health. And I was doing what a lot of people do, which is we work hard today in order for a payoff in the future. And I had been working seven days a week for many years, not exercising, not eating as well as I should. And I was doing that because I believed that myself or the world or someone could benefit from sort of the fruits of those efforts. But I never really understood the other part of that equation. And so really it started with this journey to figure out, well, what's actually happening underneath my skin? Is this bargain that I'm making worthwhile, a worthwhile investment? And, and, and that's when I met Dr. Adariwala.

AI assessment note: “it started with this journey to figure out... and that's when I met”

Partly produced feed D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 3.70

Q who is a, you know, very prominent doctor in the Bay Area is like, I don't understand how they can do this at this price point. Just the radiologist, the cost of the radiologist to read these scans is going to be so high. Are they using radiologists in, you know, in the Philippines or in countries where the costs are just so much lower? How do you do that?

A Ah, we built a highly optimized business for whole body screening. So we have one radiologist that looks at the entire body. They're trained in identifying what they see in, in every single organ. And then we have subspecialties that can chime in if there's something abnormal and they need help. And that, um, importantly, we believe can yield much more useful insights because our bodies are not a collection of parts. They're a system. And we can learn a lot about how, for example, your heart is working by looking at your brain. We can tell a lot about even things that we can't see with MRI, like blood pressure or diabetes, by looking at the effect on the liver. And so by looking at you as a system, we believe that we can provide a more accurate picture of your overall health.

AI assessment note: “we have one radiologist that looks at the entire body... we have subspecialties”

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