For as long as I've been in the field, radiologists have been reinventing the English language in ways that would impress even the late Dr. Seuss. From the text of our dictated reports, you might think that radiologists, as a species, had grown up in some faraway land where ancient Aramaic was the only recognized language. I'm not referring to silly stuff in the reports like the punctuation or the grammar but to the actual words and their meaning. Where do I begin?
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