What Doctors Don't Tell YouPlain skull radiographs should be abandoned as a means of detecting intracranial bleeding in people with mild head injury, according to Dutch investigators. ...
The CAT (computed axial tomography) scan is one of the wonders of modern medicine, and doctors love to have the opportunity to demonstrate it whenever possible.
Patients with low back pain believe they are getting 'good' care if there are sent for X-rays in spite of the fact that the X-ray does nothing to improve their condition. ...
A report from the Health Technology Assessment programme shows that routine early x-ray examinations for low back pain are expensive and confer little benefit. ...
