Comments from radiologists

Comments from Meghnad Desai Comments from Carl Riskin Comments from Keijiro Otsuka

Introduction The two documents before us—the Draft Final Report and Policy Directions—are comprehensive and detailed. The Report carries out an extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Western Region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with a view to aiding the Great Western Development Strategy (GWDS). The 19 chapters of the Report cover a range of topics—natural resources, h...

Radiologists' lament.

TO THE EDITOR: This letter of lament was prompted by a recently overheard complaint by a first-year intern to her colleagues that radiologists were not “obeying” her! Her comment led us to review her last five imaging requests (“orders”). After discussion with other radiologists, three of these requests were considered inappropriate. Major reasons for inappropriate imaging investigations are la...

S.W. Radiologists Association

South West Radiologists Association

A MORI poll earlier this year indicated that nearly 4 million people in the United Kingdom are incontinent. These patients have yet to appear in large numbers for investigation and treatment mainly because of reticence on their part, but also because of failure of doctors in general to understand that incontinence can be investigated and treated successfully in a majority of cases. Also some gy...

South West Radiologists Association

s of Papers RESULTS AND COMPLICATIONS OF PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY W. D. Jeans, Bristol The technique of dilatation of narrowed and occluded segments of artery by an intra-arterial catheter having a distensible balloon in its distal end was first described in 1974 by A. Gruntzig. Its use has gradually increased and is now widely accepted. One report (Motorjeme et al., 1980) suggests...