How do we remain objective to those with possible scares?

cs34

I've just learned three people very close to me had scares (one had a biopsy) but they didn't come to me with it. I guess I was too much a reality for them.

But now, my one friend went today and the radiologist said it was a muscle thing. My friend goes to my GP and I can't see my GP leaving it at that...but what happens if the GP does?

I would want my friend to push for an MRI (to exhaust every measure possible) until we know for sure what it is.

Am I being too paranoid because of what I went through or am I just knowledgable now and know all too well how things can be misdiagnosed or let go when they shouldn't be?

How far do we push our loved ones for testing and for them to get every answer possible because of what happened to us?