Some things are better left unsaid

摘要

In law enforcement, as in radiology, it is customary to ask a witness (in our case our trainees) to repeatedly describe an observed event (in our situation the imaging findings). Sometimes we ask our trainees to describe the features of different lesions even when they are not looking at images. This is based on our belief that repeated verbal processing builds mental images that we can all later retrieve in an attempt to match them with what we are seeing on our studies. We all have been taught this way, and because of this, we think it is a good method and continue to use it, but, are we doing the right thing?