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How I Read Imaging Studies

I hesitated a little bit to write this post because I wondered: Does anyone out there really care how I do my job? …






The Telltale Bone

I review a lot of bone MRI images, toiling alone for hours in my secluded office, in near-darkness. Let me tell you a secret (in a creepy Sixth …






Language of the Chest X-ray

Legend has it doctors add about 10,000 new words to their vocabulary in the course of medical training, most of which are rarely if …






Say Hello to the Neighborhood Radiologist

The following characters are (mostly) fictitious, the conversation invented for illustrative purposes. Johnny Fallsalot (JF): Hi there, Neighborhood Radiologist, how‘s the family? Neighborhood …