Dr. Gupta
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Nobody takes a Montreal cognitive assessment, MOCA for short, which it focuses on recall, memory loss, basic things.
Mild cognitive dysfunction is what it tends to sort of screen for.
It's not a great tool.
No one takes it with this type of frequency.
I was on with Nicole Wallace yesterday, and I thought she said it beautifully, you know,
Saying that you're passing it every other week, it's not some sort of flex here that he thinks it is.
It's an unusual thing to keep boasting about.
Doing it as frequently as he's doing makes no sense.
I don't know any neurologist that would recommend doing a MOCA with that type of frequency.
And again, it's not the flex that I think he thinks it is.
I had a chance to speak to a lot of radiology colleagues at the best academic institutions in the country over the last 24 hours, because I want to make sure that we're getting the very best expertise across specialties for Midas and Midas Health.
No one is aware of getting an MRI of the torso, which is what the results that were summarized in the physician's note that Carolyn Levitt read out.
it doesn't exist.
They had justified getting an MRI of the torso for primary screening of some sort of medical process because he's older.
And that doesn't exist.
I'm not aware, my colleagues across the spectrum in radiology are not aware of that type of screening process.
You just don't do it.
And I think the fact that
They reported only the cardiovascular and abdominal findings.
It's odd.