I look at hundreds of ultrasounds every week. There's a reason ultrasound is called "the poor mans CT scan" in radiology circles. Ultrasound was never meant to be a screening tool, it was always a problem solving tool until corporate medicine took over. Medical ultrasound waves have a very hard time getting through gas filled tissues (lungs, stomach, intestines) and compact bone (skull, pelvis, ribs etc) resulting in bunch of artifacts and very poor visualization. Could it be useful? sure maybe one day but I'll take a whole body MRI over this any day
@ClownWorld “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell, 1984
With the DEI cancer that's infiltrated medical training, Ivy league names mean nothing these days. Neurosurgery and cardiothoracic surgery historically have been the most competitive, not anymore, now its just a measure of how much abuse someone is willing to tolerate, and foreign grads obviously win on that front.
@MurrayHillGuy1 70+= at least 100 count. At an avg dick length of 6 in. That's approximately 50 ft of dick or 2 school buses length of different dicks in just a few years. End it immediately.
Years ago we got a call that my wife's grandpa had suffered a stroke, was unresponsive and might be dying. Was already beddridden for months. Got him a brain mri, nothing no stroke. Found his med list, he was on an appalling and contraindicated mix of 18 different meds. We stopped all medications. Miracle! literally rose from the dead. Few months later grandpa bought a convertible corvette, got a tattoo and new girlfriend. Lived happily to his late 80's
Same everywhere, doesn't matter if the person fell 1ft from a chair. They just get the trauma label and off they go to the CT scan. The radiologist invariably will find other incidental stuff, pulmonary nodules, adenoma, maybe some complex renal cyst and before you know it the 94 y/o is on consult with Onco and has a scheduled biopsy and now has pneumonia from being in the hospital and nobody even knows why the pt was initially there.
@nu_skewl@cps_sacredheart All those would be medical indications, presumably cause there's something wrong. There's no medical indication to get your neck cracked i.e. cervical manipulation
@SydneyLWatson $7,000 for a CT scan is utter madness.
A CT scan costs around $500-600, and the doctor who interprets it gets paid $50-65. The rest goes to the hospital CEO's yacht and salary.
Huge problem with modern healthcare is other docs aren't allowed to question the established guidelines, or the threats of reports to medical boards and libel suits quickly follow as seen on display here. 2nd problem with oncologists is that they almost always NEED a tissue diagnosis to get paid by insurance. No biopsy=no $$$
@jasonwilliamsmd The prevalence of undiagnosed prostate cancer in cadaver autopsies for males 30-40 y/o is reported around 5-30% !!
Increases linearly with age, 70-80% of males aged 79+ have an undiagnosed prostate cancer on autopsy. Statistically proven.
No exit wound? we all saw a gush of blood shoot out of the left side of the neck. that's your exit wound. If it hit bone ofc the bullet is not gonna come out intact all in one piece. I've seen 1000's of gunshot injury CT scans and bullets can do all sorts of crazy shit when they hit the body
@jefhenninger@WallStreetMav The CIA will 100% try by any means necessary to install her as the next president. Unfortunately i believe they'll be successful.