As a radiological technologist, I can attest to that. When I take X-rays or CT scans and a patent asks me what I see, I tell them I'm not allowed to do diagnosis. The reason behind it is because when it comes to X-rays and CT scans, there's various factors that have to be taken into account for diagnosis. There are multiple conditions that can look in an X-Ray the same but are different in minor ways that a radiologist can notice and properly diagnose. For my job, I'm suppose to take the pictures and scans, make sure they're in good enough detail for the radiologist to read. If I give a diagnosis and then a doctor tells the patient something else, it opens the door for a potential lawsuit. Even if it's some thing obvious (like a clearly noticeable broken bone, for example), I'm still not allowed to say so if a patient asks.
And when it comes to the doctors, they understand that our fields are different and that they trust us to do what we need to, as well as the difficulties we in the radiology department have to go through to get the pictures needed, just as much as we in the radiology department understand the importance of getting these pictures done. Sometimes, given the circumstance, we are not able to get all the pictures needed because of certain circumstances (for example, trying to get a two view chest X-Ray on a five year-old who won't stay still for five seconds, or who start crying because they thing taking the X-Ray will hurt them, even though you explain it's like taking a school picture. Another example would be a patient being in too much pain to be able to hold or lay in a position for very long) and the doctors (or in my case, the ER provider I work with during the night shift) will approve of using just the limited amount of pictures we can get given the circumstances. They trust us to do our job as best as we can, just as much as we trust them to do theirs.
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