Since the Bank Secrecy Act of 1973 requires your bank to microfilm all of your checks and hold these records for six years, the state can get intimate details of your life from a study of your checking account.
The rap against MRIs as a diagnostic tool for low back pain is not that the scans usually reveal nothing, or even that they're expensive, it's that they often show a lot of abnormalities in the back that may have nothing to do with the source of your pain.
Unlike X-rays and CT scans, an MRI doesn't use radiation. Why Would You Get an MRI? An MRI helps a doctor diagnose a disease or injury, and it can monitor how well youâre doing with a treatment. MRIs can be done on different parts of your body. An MRI of the brain and spinal cord looks for: Blood vessel damage; Brain injury; Cancer; Multiple sclerosis