Docs pretty much all have easy access to MRI, at least in the US. I have prescribed MRIs for patients in rural Louisiana. We just tell the patient "go get an MRI". Either the hospital radiology group has a scanner, or there are radiologists with MRI machines out in town. The patient just has to sign a HIPAA release so I can get the images and the radiologist's report.
Fun fact: one of the failed attempts at regulating doctors was to for the government to buy machines for hospitals, thinking somehow the government would maybe somehow have some control over something, maybe who got scanned? Net effect was an explosion in high-end OR and radiology equipment.
Fun fact: one of the failed attempts at regulating doctors was to for the government to buy machines for hospitals, thinking somehow the government would maybe somehow have some control over something, maybe who got scanned? Net effect was an explosion in high-end OR and radiology equipment.