Posted by: BKMailo August 15, 2007
SOMETHING SERIUOS (SS)!!!!
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Hey guys, I am planning to write something serious (SS) related to all in general. I may pose questions too in the end of every posting !! SS-1 Recently I visited to a doctor for my little daughter. It was a regular visit. The hospital is one of the really famous ones in the USA. After finishing all preliminary checks like the height,weight, eyesight,blood pressure,etc by a nurse, we reached the doctor. She checked my daughter and said, "Everything is fine but I suggest to take an X-ray of both writst bones to find whether her growth is normal !" Taking the doctor's prescription, we went to the X-ray room and waited for our turn. A lady (radiologist) called us into the X-ray room. She directed my daughter next to the x-ray machine and I was directed to stand in a different place. I was watching her activities. She was making an X-ray plate ready for the CHEST X-RAY. I was surprised and went to her and asked," Miss, the doctor has suggested to take X-rays of the wrist bones but you are preparing for a Chest X-ray. Why is this?" In her astonishment, she now went to the doctor's prescription at her table and saw it. She came to me and said," Sorry ! I thought it was an X-ray for her chest." Then she did what the doctor had suggested. We got the report from the doctor too. Her growth is normal, according to it. Here are two questions: Was it a human error or negligence or overconfidence or what - of the radiologist to make preparation for an X- ray of Chest without reading the doctor's prescription carefully? This is a real happenning of such a developed place of the World, what may be happenning in the nook and crannies of my country?
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