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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...n-sight?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20130217

 

[HalfListic]

haha...love the video in the left panel. that dude has some real swagger...



PS if you pay attention, you'll actually notice that there are people passing a basketball around. Crazy.

 

[DocVapor]

Fun article.

Truth is that radiologists will look for things that make sense based on the H&P given to them by the ordering physician, and then they look at the whole image for things they really shouldn't miss. They have prototypes for what things look like, and would find them. A gorilla in someone's lung obviously wouldn't have the appearance of something that's bad, thus no reason to look closer at it. The researchers need to follow up with similar studies, where they use images that resemble some sort of pathology. I would bet money that more radiologists than not would find that.

 

[gmcguitar4]

Fun article.

Truth is that radiologists will look for things that make sense based on the H&P given to them by the ordering physician, and then they look at the whole image for things they really shouldn't miss. They have prototypes for what things look like, and would find them. A gorilla in someone's lung obviously wouldn't have the appearance of something that's bad, thus no reason to look closer at it. The researchers need to follow up with similar studies, where they use images that resemble some sort of pathology. I would bet money that more radiologists than not would find that.

But people make mistakes along the way and you should be able to adapt to the situation. I heard gorilla in the lung is fatal.

 

[HalfListic]

But people make mistakes along the way and you should be able to adapt to the situation. I heard gorilla in the lung is fatal.

Yes, I think the articles is bringing to light the fact that physicians are humans and will make mistakes. But, mistakes cannot be tolerated in medicine, They can lead to further harm or even death.

The book, "complications", speaks a lot to this idea as well. It draws a lot of interesting parallels to the aviation industry. Pilots have been in a system of checks and balances with computers and checklists for a long time and have seen error rates fall far below what surgery and medicine can claim for Many procedures. For example, and I'm just making these numbers up, If a certain surgical procedure has a failure rate of just 3% that could translate still into thousands or tens of thousands of death depending on how commonly the procedure is done, which is unacceptable.

So, even if most of the time most physicians get something right, I guess there is always room, and need, for improvement. And I think technology is going to play the major role of that improvement.

 

[backsideattack1]

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