[nfbwatlk] eye exams for doctors

[Jedi]

I might be wrong here, but I don't think a radiologist's primary job is 
to read x-rays, but to operate the equipment. It's the physician's job 
to read the x-rays. And if a radiologist must read x-rays as a part of 
their job, they could hire a reader or work with a colleague to get the 
info they need. And to hire a reader? I could expect someone hiring a 
premed student, a med student, or a nursing student who has some idea 
of what to look for. And goodness knows they'd appreciate the work.

Respectfully,
Jedi

Original message:
> Mary Ellen, I think that's all well and good for certain types of
> physicians, but a radiologist?  That's their main job to look at
> x rays, and mammmography screenings, etc.  That isn't something
> that you can touch to know.  I would have no trouble going to a
> blind physician if he/she was an internal medicine doc, a family
> practice doc, or something like that.  But I'd be upset if I
> found out that a radiologist who had impaired vision had read and
> mis-diagnosed breast cancer that I had, if that were ever to
> happen.  Now if some technology is invented that would make a
> "sound" for x rays and mammography screens, that would be
> different.  I'm not ready nor are trucks equipped, for blind
> truck drivers on the road yet, either.  We do need to use some
> common sense here.    Peace,    Debby

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