Archive for January 9th, 2011


Shamelessly copied verbatim from this post by Chris Nickson of the LITFL team.

The ‘Ten Commandments of Emergency Radiology’ according to Touquet et al (1995):

Treat the patient, not the radiograph
Take a history and examination before ordering a radiograph
Request a radiograph only when necessary
Never look at a radiograph without seeing the patient, and never see a patient [...]