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Re: Ultrasound--diagnosis or treatment?From: DuboseTerryJ@uams.eduWed Feb 21 13:12:06 2001
I care to differ, starting with the fact that I am not a "technologist". I am a sonographer, and many times have had Emergency Room physicians ask me "what do you see." Sorry, you are still operating in the paridigm that there is no difference between a technologist and a sonographer... Sonographers are properly, much closer to a physician's assistant than to a technologist. Please go to the SDMS web site and read the definations: http://www.sdms.org/membership/default.asp <http://www.sdms.org/membership/default.asp> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, Assistant Professor Director, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program CHRP, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, Arkansas, USA 501-686-6510 http://www.io.com/~dubose/ <http://www.io.com/~dubose/> http://www.uams.edu/CHRP/dmshome.htm <http://www.uams.edu/CHRP/dmshome.htm> http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm <http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm> -----Original Message----- From: AKJENNINGS@aol.com [mailto:AKJENNINGS@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND Subject: Re: Ultrasound--diagnosis or treatment? Ultrasound technologists should ONLY describe what they see when making a written report. For example, a report should say "Inhomogeneous, solid appearing mass seen without increased blood flow. The measurements are ..." instead of "Fibroid". We are not physicians, and we open ourselves up for liability when we over step our position. If the physician ask what we think, then I would tell the doctor what I think the diagnosis and follow up should be. I would not put it in writing. They are the doctors, and we are the technologists. Anita Jennings RDMS
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