Re: MRI result
Hi RLR,
Here in the UK things work a little differently to the USA. We don't have the 1:1 dealings with reports and paperwork and 3rd party clinicians such as a radiologist as you do there, as there is no insurance to get involved with.
The likelihood is that on the NHS Carol would have been referred from her family doctor to a specialist who would have then referred her on for an MRI. The MRI report would be sent back to the requesting specialist who may or may not have seen Carol in Out Patients and may have summarized the reports salient points back to her and the family doctor, or at this stage just have written a referral to the neurologist who will get copies of the reports and assume care of Carol until a diagnosis and plan is formulated.
Whilst referrals and tests are ongoing and there is not a definative diagnosis to work on, details of unconclusive tests are not usually passed back to the patients in detail.
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Meg
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