Radiographers will always Report on X-ray Films in a Task-specific and Constrained Manner: An Analytical Conversation
Keywords:
X-ray films, Radiographers, Patho-physiology, Diagnostic tests, Anatomy, Histology, PhysiologyAbstract
The number of radiologists is still very low especially in developing countries. It becomes even worse in the rural areas where there
are no radiologists at all. Radiographers are the first people to contact patients who need X-ray services and clinicians often first
contact radiographers to offer an opinion. Many patients have died simply because the radiographer has not alerted the clinician
of an emergency due to limited training. Therefore, training radiographers to interpret on some selected X-ray images has become a necessity. However, owing to their limited medical knowledge, there is still debate that radiographer reporting will always remain
limited and only task-specific.
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