Two weeks after the scan I got stomach pains - it was labour but I didn't realise it - I went to the hospital thinking I just had a really bad stomach ache - the last thing I expected was to go into full labour - I didn't know you could go into labour at 24 weeks - I'd never heard of it before.
Had I waited for the cost of a CT screening to come down, chosen the cheaper X-Ray alternative or just done nothing in the hope that I could save enough money to afford the scan, I would have been dead long before the free market got around to accommodating my personal budgetary issues.
However, I have found that combining this scan with the monthly analysis of the chart, relative performance, and on-balance volume can be quite effective in identifying good buying opportunities.