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Note: This is a true incident. Though all characters in the story are anonymized, they are recognizable to the knowledgeable based on the events portrayed. That they have been anonymized reflects propriety rather than conformity to any hidebound traditions.
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John Deer and Jane Doe are part of a small team of medical personnel doing voluntary work [...]

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via Paul Levy’s blog post…
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Here’s a great fellowship opportunity in biomedical imaging being offered by the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium program. Applications are welcome from people of all nations, and with a variety of backgrounds. Here is an excerpt from the description:
With a focus on accelerating innovation in biomedical imaging, promoting translational research, and encouraging entrepreneurship, [...]

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

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From the transcript of a video by Dr. Mark G. Kris, MD, Chief, Thoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, published in MedscapeRadiology [Registration required. Free] speaking on the recent announcement by the National Cancer Institute about the release of data from the National Lung Screening Trial [Abstract & link below].

…we have never had a screening [...]

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H/T this retweet by my friend Ramona.
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From the The Local:

Berlin’s Charité Hospital has achieved a world-first by creating MRI images of a baby being born in order to provide extraordinary insights into the birthing process. A team comprised of obstetricians, radiologists and engineers have built an “open” MRI scanner that allows a mother-to-be to fit [...]

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Via this tweet by @thestudentdoc.

[Raphael was alluding to these two posts]
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What makes a 300-year-old pocket watch tick? : Nature News

State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show [...]

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I started writing this on the way back home from a meeting that I attended over last weekend. This has remained a rough draft for the past three days. I decided to publish it now with minimal changes. Else this too shall remain in my drafts folder for a long enough time to become irrelevant.
The [...]

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An impressive and compelling editorial in the latest issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
First, Do No Harm . . . to Early Pregnancies - Doubilet and Benson 29 5: 685. [Excerpts here with emphases added by me. The editorial is free to view &/or download in India. Subscription may be required for [...]