• Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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    17 hours ago

    This is how doc makes money on referrals to their friend who specializes in breast augmentation.

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    2 days ago

    One of the greatest things a doctor can tell you is if something is generally unremarkable.

    Because if it is remarkable there’s generally something there you don’t want.

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      It sounds bad at first glance, but yes. Anything that a medical professional will consider “remarkable” is generally something you don’t want.

      Most should consider “unremarkable” as meaning “nothing out of the ordinary”, aka, they found only what they expected to find.

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    3 days ago

    I know it’s just the language, but my wife and I got a kick when the results of her CT scan said her reproductive organs were “grossly unremarkable”

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      3 days ago

      I once had a fling with a gal who had one B cup breast and one C cup breast… I personally found that ‘remarkable’, but I think the doctor here is more interested in skin abberations and lumps, or maybe signifcant/severe distension, lol.

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              21 hours ago

              Hey for what its worth, I didn’t downvote you.

              I’m not a woman and have not had a mammogram, but how do you know its a mammogram?

              Couldn’t an ‘exam’ be a manual examination, as in, the doc uses his/her eyes and hands?

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                14 hours ago

                Typically you would not be mailed results from a manual exam, the doctor discusses it with you at the time, adds it to your medical record, advises further action on anything “remarkable” and schedules that for you at the time.

                The mammographer is not a doctor and is not allowed to analyze or discuss your results, they get sent to a doctor for that and then you get a letter in the mail about your hopefully unremarkable breasts.

                You might be mailed results if you had a biopsy, but they would say “negative.” They would call you with a positive, benign or malignant result.

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                  14 hours ago

                  Every doctor visit I’ve ever had, for anything, since roughly 2010, possibly earlier, ends with them handing me a packet of paper that describes the doctor’s evaluation of me during that visit.

                  Usually at least 3 pages long, sometimes longer.

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    3 days ago

    Unremarkable works both ways as a positive or negative right?

    No need to assume it’s a negative.