Gross, "Mattox to participate in study"

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Nope......     I am in sympathy with the thought, but I  do already believe 
that the data supports the intended conclusions of this  study.   My 
concerns are that I am aware that plaintiff lawyers  regularly read the contents 
of this list server.   They also have  already been having teaching sessions 
on how to sue ER doctors, pediatricians,  internists, trauma surgeons, 
orthopedists, and others for CT caused lymphomas  and leukemias in the future.   
Much like the asbestosis and  mesetheoloma cases of the past decade.     In 
my view, NO CT  should ever be ordered unless there is a clear indication as 
to what the person  ordering the tests expects to learn, and how that 
additional new knowledge, over  and above the existing and original plane x-ray 
demonstrated, will alter  decision making and treatment.   If such a progress 
note were required  for the reflexly applied ordering of CT scans, I do 
believe that over 75% of all  current CT scans and CTAs, etc. would be stopped 
over  night.         Plus  those in  attendance recall that at AAST, a study 
of CTA of suspected cerebrovascular  trauma was NOT supportive of CTA over 
arteriogram.   
 
k
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/8/2009 10:15:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Ronald.Gross at baystatehealth.org writes:

Hmmmm......I'd be willing to bet that Dr. Mattox will be the first  to sign 
on with y'all.........(sometimes I really crack myself  up!)

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