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to radiologists & hospitals in India…
THINK TWICE
BEFORE BUYING ULTRASOUND SCANNERS
FROM A FAMOUS GERMAN COMPANY!!
Their equipment may be good, but the reliability is questionable compared to equivalent American & Japanese ultrasound scanners.
Read the fine print in their service contract.
If possible, insist on and get a 2 or 3 year extended warranty / [...]

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via The Medical Quack: Health-Care Overhaul May Cost $1.5 Trillion Dollars – Who’s Going to Pay?

Interesting that this is estimated to be about the same amount of money that is (or was) in health insurance company reserves, roughly totaled. Others now are finally asking the same question I posed back in late 2008, [...]

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via radRounds Radiology Network Madoff: A Radiology Partner??

Apparently, Bernie Madoff didn’t leave any stone unturned. He also has invested his (stolen) money into radiology practices.
According to Bloomberg News (3/17/09): “Assets sought by prosecutors include the Madoffs’ interest in Hoboken Radiology LLC. Ruth Madoff is one of nine members of Hoboken Radiology, a radiology practice [...]

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via Medscape Radiology Incidental Findings Common After Cervical Spine CT for Trauma Evaluation [Registration required, Free]

More than one in six CT scans for trauma evaluation will have incidental abnormalities beyond the cervical spine, according to a report in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.*
“When radiologists are looking at a specific body part [...]

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Note: Inspired by this news article brought to my notice by Ves Dimov via twitter. [I couldn't link to the actual tweet, because twitter has been behaving oddly today and has eaten quite a few updates from users]
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A 45-year-old man, who has worked as a stone crusher in a quarry for twentytwo years presented [...]

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The latest edition is up at The Sterile Eye, by Øystein Horgmo
SurgeXperiences 219 « The Sterile Eye.

Now there’s a lot of really impressing and advanced medical illustrations available to students of anatomy and medicine today. But nothing appeals to me like the simple and effective lithographs that accompanied the early editions of the [...]

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Dr. Crippen takes exception to some of the stuff that TBTAM wrote in her post, The Tragedy of Jade Goody, that I included in SurgeXperiences 218…
NHS Blog Doctor: Jade Goody : the lessons to be learnt: [Just some excerpts here to pique your interest, I urge you to go read the entire post]
Margaret then goes [...]

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Ultrasound and MRI preferable to CT in diagnosis of IBD, analysis suggests | MRI Clinical | medicexchange.

US researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 33 prospective studies assessing these techniques which used histopathology, ileocolonoscopy, and/or intraoperative findings as the reference standard.
The authors said: “Because of the relapsing nature of IBD and the young age at which it [...]