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You're right that "the left lung" should obviously be the lung on the patient's left. However, can you look at the image below and immediately identify which i

You're right that "the left lung" should obviously be the lung on the patient's left. However, can you look at the image below and immediately identify which is the "left" lung? https://scratch.rprosperoglobal.duckdns.org/lungs.png https://scratch.rprosperoglobal.duckdns.org/lungs.png

lostlogin 3y ago
I think I can, maybe. However I’m a radiographer and pictures like this are my job. The orientation is screwed up and images should almost never be displayed like this. If the patient’s organs are in non-standard locations (situs inversus, dextrocardia etc), something very bad will happen when orientations are messed with. Use standard orientations and label the images.
- rprospero 3y ago
  I fully agree with you. I was mostly posting as an example that "left is the patient's left" is not sufficient without other standards (like image orientation).
  - lostlogin 3y ago
    And that went straight over my head. Your point was well made.
adql 3y ago
...you just expect random readers to know how lung looks on (i assume) MRI, from (I assume) top ? I'd also assume it would be simple to spot just because the image is always took from the same direction so the narrow part points out to front/back of the patient