"This EEG is normal. But it may also be abnormal."
Monday, June 6, 2011
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"This EEG is normal. But it may also be abnormal."
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I'm reviewing some records today, and found this quote:
"This EEG is normal. But it may also be abnormal."
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"This EEG is normal. But it may also be abnormal."
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16 comments:
Kinda sounds like what some people think of me.
Do they let med students write in reports?
Sounds like a written form of what most of us say when presented an ECG or EEG or any other thing that requires interpretation.
Schrodinger strikes again.
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CYA? In a big way?
Doctor G, please tell me that was some other doctor's comment, and not yours! :)
One must leave room for other possibilities, new frontiers, and a repeat seizure(-like) episode.
Ya gotta cover all the bases.
The patient is alive. But he might be dead.
Its normal if the patient is abnormal? ;^D
Well, I'm glad we've got that settled.
Abnormal is the new normal.
They're just covering all of their bases....right?
Since when are radiologists reading EEGs?
Typical EEG report is something like 'There is a focus of alpha wave activity at 3 Hz in the parietal lobe and a focus of delta wave activity at 10 Hz etc. etc." which goes on for three quarters of a page in closely typed script, then at the bottom is a clinical interpretation which says:
"Within normal limits."
I've NEVER seen contradictary statements in Radiology.
Signed,
Sonographer
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