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Dec 29
2011

Is Radiologist biased while giving a radiology report, on many occasions?

Posted by Dr. Sridhar V in Radiologist , Bias

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Dr. Sridhar V

Definition of Bias

‘To lean towards something because you don’t like something else, or you like something more than something else, goes hand in hand with discrimination and prejudice’

‘Someone who already has their mind made up and preset towards a one sided view of a situation’

 

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Patient having RT hypochondrial pain.

Two scan centers gave USG report as Multiple Gall stones with sludge and a third scan center gave the report as ‘echogenic mass lesion with acoustic shadow-to rule out growth’

(Nobody knows why the patient visits so many scan centers for the same problem.)