pjwMD

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   by pjwMD 9y ago

   One voice does not equal the system, but in any the push by some to bill for clinician performed US is largely driven by a need to generate funds to justify to administrators the purchase of a $70k device.
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   by pjwMD 9y ago

   In the outpatient setting it might take days or a week or more to get an appointment for a formal US, then more time for the radiologist to read it, then more time for the GP to get the results and consider treatment changes then more time
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   by pjwMD 9y ago

   As an internal medicine phsysician who has been using a handheld daily for the past few years I would only add that high image quality is not always needed for many of our most important applications: Lung, IVC, bladder, DVT, abscess. US is
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   by pjwMD 9y ago

   It changed this week, this is the first commercially available device that uses silicon chip rather than piezoelectric crystals, thus the buzz.