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Originally Posted by sheena
Yes, can you believe it. I picked up the hard copy of my MRIs this week and all looked great. No new lesions, no enhancement. I was so happy.
Then I started to read more then the impression part. The findings on one stated I had increased in prominence and intensity. I went wild and I do mean wild. Those of you who know me, know what I mean. My entire world came to an end... Yes, I take things too hard. It seemed my drug was not working.
My neuro would not return call. I had to go to GP the next day as ill, so I took my reports. I cried so hard as I told her to read them. She could not see how everything could be good and still an increase. She said maybe it was a mistake and called the radiologist. Yes, I was a mistake. It was to have read decreased. So the good news is all was great with my mri.
I do not understand how a mistake like this could have happened. My neuro did not catch it and it is just luck my GP cared enough to check on it. I don't know if the radiologist put in the wrong info or if it was a typo, but what if it had not been caught. I would have prob stopped my working drug or I would be scared for the next 6 mo that everything was getting worse.
I know we are all human, but these people have extensive training and are not expected to make mistakes. This is why we pay the big bucks for an mri. Mri mistakes can mean the dif between life and death for some and so many other things. I still can't believe they messed up.
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I'm going to school to be a transcriptionist. It's extremely possible that the transcriptionist misheard it, or mis-typed it.
My first MRI report was done wrong. It was 3 pages long. On the first page, it said there wasnt anything.
When the physician's assistant at my doctor's office called me to give me the results. She told me that they didnt find anything. That I was fine.
About a half an hour later, my opthalmologist called me, and told me that they did find something, but that they didnt know for sure if it was MS or something else. Couldnt tell me what it was. (took me another 4 months and 2 spinal MRI's to find out)
I told him the PA from the doctor's office had told me there was nothing there, that I was fine. He told me, "no...there's something wrong, but we dont know what it is yet..." (or something like that)
So, after I got off the phone with him, I called my doctor's office. I was ******! Told the nurses I wanted to talk to the PA's supervisor and why.
One of the doctors called me back personally an hour or two later. (doctors at that office never call patients back themselves)
His explanation was that the PA only read the first page of the report. She didnt bother to read the last page where the Impression was, and where they mention the two dots (doesnt call them lesions) of signal enhancement was, and that it suggested demylineating disease. (also said that the dots were not in any place where they'd normally find MS lesions and that they were too small)
I was told that they're changing the procedure and everyone who has to read a report and inform a patient what it says, must read and initial every page of the report.
It took me a long time to get over that. For about a half an hour, I thought that I was going to be fine, only to find out that I'm not, and that the PA was a complete moron.
When I get my transcriptionist certificate and go to work (hopefully!) I'm going to try to be as accurate as I can get on the reports that I'll be typing up.