What 3 doctors actually think about Midjourney's new body scanner

Christina Farr brings together three clinicians with genuinely different views: cardiologist Venkatesh Murthy, rheumatologist Paul Sufka, and internist Sandeep Palakodeti, to react to Midjourney, the whole-body scanning startup that went viral after an Elon Musk retweet. The conversation centers on a real tension in medicine: when does more screening actually help people, and when does it just generate more anxiety, biopsies, and cost without saving more lives?

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LINKS:
MidJourney: https://www.midjourney.com/medical 
Velocity Health: https://velocityhealthclinic.com/ 
Twin Cities Orthopedics: https://tcomn.com/physicians/paul-sufka/ 
Elon Musk’s retweet: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2067427059895521345?s=20 
Caltech research: "Whole Cross-Sectional Human Ultrasound Tomography” (April 2026): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4 
Caltech's own writeup: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scanning-the-body-with-sound 
South Korean thyroid screening study: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-020-07597-4 
Japan active surveillance study (Kuma Hospital): https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/endocrj/71/1/71_EJ23-0395/_article 

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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Lead In
(00:46) Intro
(02:17) Whole body MRI basics
(03:11) Incidental findings trap
(05:52) Can AI fix imaging
(08:38) Evidence vs overdiagnosis
(13:00) Autonomy, incentives, liability
(20:42) Sponsor: Baker Health
(21:58) Lifestyle wins from scans
(23:27) Who pays downstream costs
(34:03) Midjourney tech under fire
(39:01) Regulation gray zones
(41:50) Bold new era argument
(45:10) Finding silent disease early
(49:50) Avoiding snake oil future
(53:19) Wrap