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Originally Posted by en bloc
Personally, I think radiologists have a responsibility to report anything they find. It is not their place to determine suggestibility of the patient or whether they will experience symptoms from it. Their job is solely to report the findings (all of them) and leave the clinical diagnosis to the doctor.
It used to be that patients were not reading their own reports. Now patients can be more proactive when they see things like this and start asking more questions.
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Hi en bloc,
You expressed the sentiment that I exactly feel about the judgment call made by this radiologist. I could not express better when you said : "their job is solely to report the findings ( all of them) and leave the clinical diagnosis to the doctor". In my limitation of your language, I somehow feel handicapped in expressing my words. That's why when something important like this comes up, I discussed it with my husband and he helps me in discussing my thoughts and ideas with my
Again, thank you.
