September 24, 2009
by an anonymous radiologist
I recently read the article and comments on this link from this post, concerning radiologists, from Musings of a Dinosaur.
I was disturbed to discover the animosity with which this topic is covered. The tenor of the blog is that radiologists are greedy, self-serving and are out to erode the doctor-patient relationship. The [...]
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September 10, 2009
by Nancy Walsh, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Almost 3% of healthy, asymptomatic people who underwent MRI brain scans showed incidental abnormalities in a recent study, leading researchers to express concern about about psychological and medical fallout from these increasingly popular screenings.
In meta-analysis of MRI brain scans, the prevalence of neoplastic incidental findings was 0.70% (95% CI [...]
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