Dear Myelogirl,

I can understand your frustration with the readings of your tests. I fell and broke 5 ribs. I went to the ER and the x-ray tech told me, yep, you broke some ribs, the ER doc said I broke 5 ribs, and then the radiologist reading the x-rays said NORMAL, no fractures, in his report. I contacted him and asked for him to review them again. Again, he said NO fractures. Several weeks later, I had follow-up x-rays as my ribs were not healing. Different hospital. Radiologist reported 5 fractured ribs. A subsequent CT chest scan also showed 5 fractured ribs. The original radiologist would never concede that he was incorrect even with overwhelming evidence.

Sorry about the long story just to show that I do understand how frustrated you were with your report.