Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
When talking radiology for most of the day, it’s easy to forget to switch modes when speaking to nonradiologists.
So says Dr. Paul McCoubrie in a thought-provoking and entertaining new column. He’s worried some radiology reports are like a James Joyce novel: The words are broadly familiar, the order broadly conventional, but the meaning is often opaque.
Over the past week, tributes have flowed for Dr. Prateek Joshi, the 43-year-old radiologist who died with his pathologist wife and their three young children in the Air India plane crash. “We will never know what he could have achieved, what he could have given to the community,” said a former colleague.
On a more upbeat note, the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM) deserves praise for its creative cancer awareness campaign. It joined forces with other medical associations for the conclusion of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour in Genoa. Get the full story here.
To ensure patient privacy, it’s sometimes vital to hide the identity of people in their medical images. German researchers have studied this topic closely and published their findings in European Radiology. Don’t miss our news report.
Swedish authors have been busy too. Their analysis of imaging from 6,514 participants from 13 countries has underlined the potential of tau PET as a biomarker for staging Alzheimer’s disease.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com
