The Radiologist as a Consultant
| Autor: | John F. Herrick |
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| Rok vydání: | 1932 |
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| Zdroj: | Radiology. 18:1011-1013 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/18.5.1011 |
| Popis: | IT should be the aim of the radiologist to be considered a consultant in medicine. Too often he has accepted the role of technician, permitting his knowledge of medicine and surgery, as well as his knowledge of the science and art of radiology, to be submerged. His duty should not end with a simple report of structural findings. He should be able to analyze the findings in the light of the history and symptoms, to correlate them, and then give his conferee an opinion of practical value. The radiologist has to do with two classes of physicians: (a) those who do not desire an opinion from him, and (b) those who are desirous 0 f obtaining any aid possible. In the first class are those who, because of opportunity and experience, feel that they are quite competent to interpret the findings themselves. To them, the radiologist is little more than a technician. Others seem so jealous of their prerogatives that they undertake to make their own interpretations and diagnoses, notwithstanding their want of knowledge... |
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