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Nov 05
2008

Instant Reporting

Posted by Prashant Bhatt in Tips , Radiology Reporting , Precuations , Emergency

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Prashant Bhatt
Do some patients, relatives, clinicians have the habit of pressing you for instant reports? Are there some persons who always send their patients as emergencies or VIPs or "posted for surgery" and then tell you to make immediate consultations on cases which could clearly have been done on a routine elective basis?

 

Some things can wait. For some things the patient can come back. They can come back for a Pathology report as that takes time to process. They can come the next week for the Hormone assays report as the lab is setting up the tests only after they get a required number of samples collected together. They can come next time, as their surgeon is busy in a surgery. But when it comes to a Radiology report, they have either come from out of town, or are VIPs, or this is an urgent report and they just cannot wait.