Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
If you don't communicate better with patients, you're going to face a lawsuit. That was the stark message from veteran radiologist Dr. Leonard Berlin at the recent Management in Radiology (MIR) congress in Bologna, Italy.
He also predicted that radiologists will be sending reports direct to patients in the future, either voluntarily or by legal requirement. On the plus side, he reassured MIR delegates that technology can help. Go to our Healthcare Informatics Community, or click here.
Postmortem imaging is an area of huge potential, but consent problems appear to be halting progress, particularly in terms of fetal autopsies using CT and MRI. To learn more, visit our CT Community, or click here.
A Dutch medical physicist, Arie van 't Riet, PhD, has created some stunning artistic "nature scenes" by taking x-rays of animals and plants. His artwork is going to be featured at next month's RSNA 2014 meeting in Chicago, but you can get a sneak peak in our Digital X-Ray Community, or by clicking here.
More imminently, the French national radiological congress -- known simply as JFR -- begins on Friday. The format is different this year, as are the central themes. To read a preview guide, click here, and make sure you check our home page regularly for news coverage of JFR 2014.
In a new 16-year study, Spanish researchers have found that switching to full-field digital mammography leads to early diagnosis, not overdiagnosis. The group found that cancer detection rates did not increase when compared with film-screen mammography, and that going digital led to an increase in detection rates of ductal carcinoma in situ. Get the details here.
