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How did this happen?

Surely your results went to a requesting physician who should have been following up with you? Radiology doctors don’t usually organise follow up care.

Or was the inaccurate result from the requesting physician?

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I don't know, just incompetence and disorganization on their part. Directly after my MRI, they told me the images didn't indicate any meaningful information.

The radiographer or the radiologist? Did you see your requesting doctor afterwards?

You got lost in the mess of files and admin. The process is usually that you get the exam, they give you a first impression orally. Then they really get to work and look properly, and produce a written report, which the requesting doc will use for treatment decisions. At that point, they're supposed to get back to you, but apparently someone dropped you along the way.

Yet they still managed to give them the CD with the diagnosis... Such a strange process

Very likely because radio did their work correctly (with the misfortune of a wrong prelim assessment), but the requesting doc either forgot or chose not to act on the results. Or results were not transmitted correctly, so the requesting doc never was aware... many things can go wrong in collaborative work. Anyways, a communication issue for sure.

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