[sharkweek]

I had a CT scan last year for some stomach issues they wanted to look at.

Doctor warned me up front that the odds the images find something that looks weird is high but not to panic because of how many false positives there are when looking inside someone’s body.

While I am happy to report they didn’t find anything serious, I do take slight offense to the following at the top of my results:

Last name, First name: Unremarkable

(Kidding of course but still got a chuckle out of me)

[OptionOfT]

> I do take slight offense to the following at the top of my results:

No offense for me, just confusion. One of the status reports started as follows:

> OptionOfT is a very pleasant 36-year-old gentleman 6 weeks status post left anterior total hip arthroplasty done by Dr. _ on _.

I asked my wife whether I was particularly friendly (I sometimes fail to adjust my demeanor in certain situations).

She said: nah, they write that for everybody.

[jmcgough]

The bar is really low for patient behavior. Tbh I find anyone not screaming at me to be pleasant in comparison.

[lostlogin]

Some RIS systems make semi form reports with ‘Dear <referrer> thank you for sending <patient> to see us for their <type of imaging> etc etc.

Then you can just tab from field to field when doing the report.

[JackFr]

I had a nurse chart “patient ‘feels like a million bucks’” while I was getting an immunotherapy infusion.

She said “It’s just not often I hear that here.”

[gullywhumper]

2.5 years in of regular PET scans. At this point, I’m almost humored by what gets flagged as suspicious by the radiologist - usually mosquito bites and stomach bugs (kids in daycare means I’m almost always sick). I have a scan Monday and two weeks ago had a re-excision so there’s a two inch gash healing on my back. This week I got three vaccines. And then tonight my toddler bit me hard enough to draw blood. I had asked the oncologist if it made sense to delay the scan because of the re-excision and he said not to worry because he’d know why there’s inflammation in that area. I’m thinking the bite and the shots will probably get flagged too. I just hope I don’t forget any other maladies or mishaps that might get flagged that I can’t explain.

[_heimdall]

How often are they finding actual positive hits on the PET? If its so unreliably with regards to false positives why do you continue to have PET scans done?