It will also make it harder toget new heart drugs approved and to market medicines that are already for sale but are not backed by big studies confirming their benefits.
Annual deaths from congestive heart failure plummeted 22% by adding (and enforcing) a checklist to ensure all patients get the right medicines before they leave the hospital.
And with a slow scanner, we wouldn't be able to freeze the motion of the heart and all we'd get is blurry images, like a car racing by on a photograph.