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papa · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

the reason we can't interperate (correct me if i'm wrong guys) is the wonderful legal system. for example, i've been doing CT for about 10 years now. yes, i know what i'm looking at, and there are many abnormalities in a cat scan that i can pick out and describe to the radiologist when he makes his final interpritation. however, it is beyond my "scope of practice" to interperate what i see on the scan and tell a patient. since i have not been formally trained to do so, any small difference between what i tell a patient and what the radiologist reads could put me in court and/or i would lose my licence to perform any kind of radiological exam. no matter how good or bad i feel the diagnosis may be, i'm not a doctor. i don't have the formal training to tell the difference between, say, a kidney stone and a normal calcifacation in the pelvis. radiologists are.

i wholeheartedly agree that either your physicians or a radiologist would be the best people to ask about the study.

papa rtrct
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