re do we need a radiologist to read an ultrasound dougb comm mot com doug bank writes my wife s ob gyn has an ultrasound machine in her office when on her next visit my wife asked another doctor in the office if they read the ultrasounds themselves or if they had a radiologist read the pictures the doctor very vehemently insisted that they were qualified to read the ultrasound and radiologists were not my wife is concerned about this she saw a tv show a couple months back something like or dateline nbc etc where an expert on fetal ultrasounds a radiologist was showing all the different deffects that could be detected using the ultrasound should my wife be concerned should we take the pictures to a radiologist for a second opinion and if so where would we find such an expert in chicago we don t really have any special medical reason to be concerned but if a radiologist will be able to see things the ob gyn can t then i don t see why we shouldn t use one any thoughts as far as i can see if your obstetrition has an ultrasound in his rooms and is expirienced its use and interpretation he should be just as capable of reading it as any radiologist all doctors are qualified to read x rays u s ct scans etc it is just that a radiologist does nothing else and thus is only better at reading them because of all this time spent doing this skill in reading x rays etc just comes from plenty of practice if your obstetrition reads heaps of obstetric ultrasounds he should be able to pick up any abnormalities that can be demonstrated by this technique paul zikzak public access unix melbourne australia o o
