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via The Trial of a WhiteCoat – Part 14.

The radiologist that read the film had a habit of going to the surgeons the following day and asking them what they had found. He would open up a blank report so that it looked as if it was dictated at the time of the exam, but [...]

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A small mental excercise for medical bloggers.
See the following three portable (bedside) chest radiographs that were taken in an ICU setting. They are in sequence.
See if you can guess the story that they tell.
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via Medscape CME: Radiographic Pneumonia Uncommon in Children With Wheezing. [Registration required. Free]
Radiographic pneumonia is uncommon in children with wheezing but without fever. Hence the routine use of chest radiography in these children should be discouraged, according to the results of a prospective cohort study reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.

“The diagnosis of pneumonia [...]

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Nicola Tesla
(10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943)
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla’s patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power [...]

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Ordering CT examinations for children younger than age 6 who are admitted to an emergency department for a headache seldom aids in diagnosis, exposes the child to unnecessary radiation, and is a waste of money. While pediatric neurologists and emergency physicians at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, weren’t quite [...]